Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court convictions, he shouted to a lecture hall jammed with adorers. "That isn't James Michael Curley they have lying in the gutter. It is you ... and you ... and you." As his finger pointed almost accusingly at faces before him, even the disinterested could feel the impact of the psychology that keeps his graft and corruption almost above criticism...
Social Sciences 13b. The Impact of Science on Modern Life (spring term). Professor Mather. (Follows Natural Sciences 11a). "A critical examination of the function of science in society and its implications for human welfare in the social transformations of the twentieth century...
...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
...Long Wing is a story of the impact of the Maclouds on 18-year-old Nora. Quietly written, with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf." This is an account of the Macloud gulf, told mostly in terms of young Nora's reactions and those of her father, who at points finds himself quite as baffled...
Widespread approval of social welfare legislation by the judiciary bears witness to the impact of Pound's thesis upon our national conscience. Yet his is a middle-way position: there is strong insistence that "we are not compelled, because we recognize cooperation as a factor in civilization, to sacrifice all that was achieved in the last century by working out a system of individual rights...