Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to felicitate the CRIMSON on the attainment of its diamond anniversary. During these seventy-five years the paper has grown to occupy an important and unique position in the life of the University. It has watched many changes in this institution of learning including the impact of three wars. Through all that time, it has represented freely the various shifts of opinion among the young men of each successive college generation...
...culture. Music was now a product to be seized by machinery, to be packaged, distributed and sold in wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven Ninth and Too Fat Polka ("I don't want her, You can have her, She's too fat for me"). It had also made possible the use of either Beethoven...
...reminded of the "prodigious religiousness" of 19th Century Britain: "All that business and efficiency in organizing religious services and activities, served, I am sure, as a cushion against the hard impact of the living God. Our churches were like comfortable and well managed religious clubs, in which we felt nicely at home, in which we felt good, in which we even wanted to be better, at least on Sunday evenings when singing particularly lush hymns...
...five years. At first, the change was blamed by some fans on inferior wartime players. Connoisseurs of team-play began missing one of the game's biggest thrills: the sight of two wings and a center flashing abreast down the ice', two enemy defensemen getting set for impact, the deft passes, the shot, the clear-cut scoring play. Instead, they saw a game that was more like high-pressure "shinny...
...were almost head-on views of junkyards, stray people, tenements, hill farms and city streets, done with an antiseptic brilliance of black, white and grey. Chill as glass, they had no more charm than a newsreel, but the quiet clarity of each print gave their commonplace subject matter the impact and beauty of things seen for the first time...