Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...progressive America of 1956, Grapes of Wrath can be seen without evoking the violence of feeling it did in 1940, except perhaps in the drought-stricken Southwest where the farmers are again having to move out. Untimeliness is not the only reason that the movie does not produce sufficient impact. Although producer Darryl F. Zanuck thought the condition of the Okies even worse than John Steinbeck had reported, in a supposedly superior medium, he does not attain as graphic a portrayal of their plight as did the author...
...letter reads in part, "Although subsequent events have already somewhat dulled the impact of the frightful suppression of the Hungarian revolt, it is increasingly clear that the consequences of the revolt have only begun to appear. Every day adds thousands to the mass of refugees in Austria, and the work of relief will become greater as the winter sets...
...McKenney handles battles with as much relish as bundling. The rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives Author McKenney some of her best pages...
...little evidence of increased personal morality . .. To become a church member in America is easy, too easy! ... It must be remembered, though, that in the Wesleyan Revival of the 18th century there was a time lag of nearly a quarter of a century between the preaching . . . and the impact on the social life of Britain...
...which like the best of them might also have been called The Heiress-is among the most unsatisfactory. It is not so much that Adapter Bolton has violated James's novel (although he has made a host of small changes that reduce the book's great cumulative impact to emotional small change); it is much more that by diminishing James's story to a mere tampered-with story line, by restricting James's characters, to the role of mere plot carriers, Bolton has burned away the gold of James's great moral drama to leave...