Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly half of the students said the crisis would have a significant impact on Carter's chances in the presidential election. Thirty-eight per cent felt the situation would have little effect, while 11 per cent remained undecided...
Drifting through the back corridors of the White House one picks up a fascinating catalogue of tiny refinements, adjustments and changes that Carter's people declare he has made in himself. Some of them: accepting the fact that others often know more than he does, sensing the impact of eloquence in the spoken word, understanding that there need be no conflict between morality and great power, acknowledging that people of wealth and position can help the nation, learning that litigating endlessly and sounding nice is not leadership and that preaching can often do more harm than good...
...effort to make life and art one and the same does very little to change life, and generally dilutes art; but it is one of the permanent, unrealizable fixtures of the romantic will to cultural impact, and thus the favorite bromide of the avantgarde...
...Oper, the Vienna visit turns out to be the final coup of his tenure. Internal conflicts have led the center's board to redefine Feinstein's status as of Nov. 30, retaining him thereafter only in the less powerful role of director of opera and ballet. The impact of this change on future visits by foreign companies is unclear...
Most of his time was spent with painters, trying to transliterate the impact of postimpressionism into his fledgling prose. It worked well enough that the Christian Science Monitor asked him to write an occasional mood piece about Paris. This led to assignments in Ireland and Spain, the subject of his first book, Marching Spain...