Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer takes care to change the locale, the time, any detail which might embarrass the subject he has chosen for his literary portrait. In Faithful are the Wounds, Miss Sarton neglects such precautions. The novel has, for people who have lived through the event she describes, all the impact and all the pain of a newspaper account or a contemporary history. But Miss Sarton does not bind herself to the accuracy such forms demand. She can swipe out at the living and make her blow felt, writing as she does half from fact and half from fancy. Such writing...
...subsequent three novels, Of Time and The River, The Web and The Rock, and You Can't Go Home Again, Rubin admits that they "are certainly not complete entities; the total impact is far from harmonious; and luminous passages are mixed in with opague and soggy passages." Wolfe himself at this period was "entirely dependent as a writer upon the quality of his memory, and the quality of the memories of manhood was infinitely poorer than those of childhood. There was far less perspective, and there was not the "space, color, and time" that the memories of his youth provided...
...these poems, Honig most often adopts a position of removal from the subject he is treating, so that even his description of a very personal incident in "Do You Love Me?" combines dispassion with its emotional impact: ". . . Her dying sigh denies/The quiet settling idly on/His polished shoe. One blunt toe/Gleams back a flawless eye at him/As he dangles from the sigh." The poet reports single acts or aspects of the circus: the morality or the moral are implicit in the way he sees them and transmits them to the reader. And it is at this point that Honig the poet...
Though the group never showed together again, their revolt made history. It led to Manhattan's first independent show (no jury, no prizes) and paved the way for the 1913 Armory show, a landmark event that first gave the U.S. public the full impact of Europe's postimpressionist, fauve and cubist painters (sensation of the show: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...field of astronomical geophysics, with which the Observatories are most concerned, deals with the sun and its effect on the earth, especially through the impact of light on the earth and its atmosphere...