Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERNARD LORJOU, 46, an unabashed realist, whose heavy-handed oils make up in impact what they lack in grace (TIME, Nov. 6, 1950). To critics who say that his plunging horses, beheaded bulls and heavily laden tables are symbols borrowed from Picasso, Lorjou angrily replies that his inspiration comes direct from El Greco, Velásquez and Goya...
...exploring the areas where most imaginative men would place atomic engines, Woodbury arrives at pessimistic conclusions. It is in less startling, but far more significant areas that the atom has already had permanent impact--in the form of radioactive isotopes. Radioisotopes play roles of tremendous importance in the treatment of cancer, materials testing, and in archaeological dating. Many physiological secrets, Woodbury predicts, will shed their mystery with the aid of new techniques of radioactive tracing. Woodbury briefly explains the tracer clues in photosynthesis, which scientists are now pursuing in an attempt to uncover the mysterious catalysts that hold...
...lead the buyer to complain. Cracks Recordmaker Peter Bartok (son of the late great Béla): "The listener is a damn nuisance." Nuisance or not, today's listener is part of a cultural revolution. The sound that comes through his speakers is not living music; its impact is no longer assisted by the sight of performers struggling with abstractions, nor by the massed reaction of a concert-hall audience. What this will do to musical taste is not clear; some think it will freeze on presold "great" classics, others that it will incline to spectacular moderns...
...attempt to examine conscientiously the intricate perversions of self-deception, a writer of drama risks creating a vehicle so heavy that despite its real values of depth it is incapable of delivering its potential impact. To a certain extent, this is the error into which Lyon Phelps has fallen in his play The Gospel Witch. Even with cuts the production is too long, and in spite of the general excellence of the cast and the immediacy of a theatre-in-the-round presentation, the audience becomes almost numb during the last third of the play under an accumulated burden...
...flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...