Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered on a flourish of trumpets. In pubs and farms, the reaction of many a normally loyal Labor voter was: "Thank heaven Eden had the guts to take firm action." Though Labor M.P.s harangued crowds from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Southampton on the theme of "law not war," their impact seemed to be diminishing. A worried Tory campaign manager thought that Eden seemed to have most people with him "but this thing could change any moment." Though the Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the government, the Archbishop of York found that the "policy of the government, no less than...
...death last week. Yet Sadovy's 18 rolls of 35-mm. film showed no tremor. His most memorable sequence: rebels cutting down security police as they poured out of a Communist headquarters. With his pictures. LIFE ran his own terse, vivid account: "I could see the impact of bullets on a man's clothes...
...book. Lincoln As They Saw Him (Rinehart; $6), in which Herbert Mitgang, an editor of the Sunday New York Times, shows in their own words how editorial writers and reporters viewed Lincoln at every stage of his public life. For all it tells of Lincoln with the fresh impact of the morning's paper, Mitgang's fat volume tells as much about the press from the withering perspective of history...
Hadrian's Wall. Today an invisible Hadrian's wall still divides British art into a realm of excitable, Celtic imagination that runs from Blake to Bacon on one side and a John Bull love of country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...
...even more dramatic example of widening U.S. impact is bearded, Scottish-born Alan Davie, 35. His discovery of Jackson Pollock in 1948 came as a revelation: "I was amazed to find that I wasn't alone." Davie's recent Manhattan show of his free-form, Druidical abstractions was a near sellout, with eight large paintings snapped up by museums and collectors. Davie's sales in six previous London shows: none...