Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center, but all were small and new. The new strategic importance of the Middle East--both in resources and location--required many more people with a knowledge of the area. In addition, as Frye points out, the whole area is going through "nothing less than a basic revolution. The impact of the West is really reaching down to the people on all levels, and we must begin to understand the changes in what was a sleeping part of the world...
...University staff. Frye, brilliant young linguist and historian, had carried much of the load himself until Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb was appointed University Professor and Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic in 1954. Langer calls him "one of the very greatest living Arabists," and with his special interest the impact of the West upon Arab Society, the British scholar is certain to be a continuing inspiration for the Center...
...hunting trip, Purchasing Agent James Modie. 44, turned to go back to his car, was struck a stunning blow behind the right ear, came to 15 minutes later to discover that he had been dropped by a 3½-lb. cock pheasant, which broke its neck on impact...
...that the age of nuclear fission might introduce an age of freaks and monsters. Ingalls replied yesterday that "Hydrogen bombs can cause such direct havoc to a whole population by their direct effects, that little is to be gained at this point by concentrating on the speculation that the impact is to be measured in mutations and inheritable monstrosities...
Mailer has also attempted to make this book a psychological study of the leaders of the movie industry, as well as one of Congressional investigator, but the whole emphasis of the book is frankly on sex, and these other themes never achieve the impact Maller intended. By putting what seems to be unnecessary stress on the sleeping habits of his characters, Mailer has lost an excellent opportunity to write a fine moral on the mores of the movie industry