Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experts disagreed last night as to the late Albert Einstein's impact on contemporary philosophy, when Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, Gerald J. Holton, associate professor of Physics, and Phillipp Frank, Einstein's biographer, met for "A Tribute to Albert Einstein: His work and Its Implications for Contemporary Thought" at Hunt Hall...
...take the opposite side," said Frank. "He was influential because his scientific views had so great an impact on the philosophic theories of others," he added...
...enough to reach even the hidden recesses of the second balcony, but it somehow never sounds declamatory or too loud. Miss Cornell's presence on the stage is so overwhelming, in fact, that the other actors sometimes succumb to the temptation to shout in order to make an equal impact on the audience. This defect is most noticeable in the performance of Tyrone Power, who plays the deserter. He projects the surface brashness of his character, but most of the other possible shadings of characterization are lost in verbal athletics...
...West Germany the impact of the Austrian deal was immense. Thousands of West Germans were asking themselves: If Austria can be unarmed, unoccupied and unified, why not we? The Socialists were pushing the idea for all it was worth. The Adenauer government and the conservative and center press hastened to point out the differences: Germany has 70 million people as compared to Austria's 7,000,000; Austria has no Ruhr; Germany is potentially a strong military power and Austria is not; Moscow would be reluctant to dissolve the East German government except at a staggering price, while Austria...
...shrewd choice in selection of subject matter. Instead of criticizing literary style alone, he has written a work filled with perceptive sociological insights into turn-of-the-century American society. Using the well-known Horatio Alger story as a touchstone common to five novelists, Lynn has traced the impact of the success myth upon each artist and has indirectly produced a profound commentory on the fiercely competitive Big Business era. The summarization of an age through its literature is dangerous history; but here it proves very effective. Through skillful blending of the novelists own beliefs, ambitions, and fears, with their...