Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deny the perceptiveness of the undertakers while she decries their sales pitch. Some readers may find her own singleminded emphasis on money just as distasteful as the embalming practices she describes. But because her appeal is essentially emotional--and Americans are always emotional about money--her book will have impact, and produce results...
...studies of the American Negro, and began to write the essays for the Atlantic Monthly, World's Work, and other journals, that were later to be combined in his most famous work, The Souls of Black Folk. When this small book appeared in 1903 it had an enormous impact on Negroes. In the words of Langston Hughes, The Souls of Black Folk "was like a Bible to thousands of Negro students, writers, intellectuals, and just plain ordinary people...
Miss Jellicoe is apparently a great believer in the use of seemingly irrelevant gimmicks to "reinforce the total impact of the play," as she tells us in a program note. Each character's entrance, for example, is heralded by a flurry of background music, which eventually takes on Symbolic Meaning. When the tenor saxophone which originally played for Tolen begins to announce Colin's arrival late in act two, it means that he's been transformed, I suppose. In the tiny Hotel Bostonian theatre, where no seat is more than twenty-five feet from the stage, the music is merely...
Lockheed's echo-location system may some day have an important impact on antisubmarine warfare, for it shows that the human ear, when working with the proper mixed frequencies, can determine the composition of an unseen object. This could correct a major failing in present sonar systems in which whales are sometimes mistaken for ene my submarines. It may also put the Seeing-Eye dog out of business. Lockheed scientists hope to reduce the sound generator to the size of a flashlight; then the blind may learn to "see" with their skilled ears...
...reaching for one perfect final portrait of man, and his avaricious eye is often bigger than his brush. "I am trying to communicate with myself, and I keep hoping that one day I'll knock myself backward with the impact of what I've done." Until then, the chances are good that Bacon will continue bowling over everybody else...