Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical revolution which Einstein started is not yet in sight. Perhaps it will stop itself-suddenly-in mid-development under the impact of that equation, E = mc2, which inspired the nuclear physicists to turn small bits of matter into world-shaking energy...
More & more Tories charge that in debates of world impact he merely grapples with the Government for petty party gains, while in matters of genuine difference with the Government he lets subordinates take over. Gravest and most justified complaint: Churchill, in his staunch opposition to gradual relaxing of the Empire's bonds, does not reflect his party's majority view...
...music before was not a sufficient cushion for the impact of the Adagio; what came after was, as always, anti-climatic. The performances of the other movements left much to be desired, for the music of the Ninth overstates experience, and Koussevitzky's habitual exaggeration ill becomes the work...
...painting, like any game, still required a rigidly defined field (or canvas), a number of players (forms and colors), and, finally, rules of play. Instead of imitating nature, referees developed new rules: 1) distorting and arbitrarily recoloring nature for emotional impact (expressionism); 2) chopping nature into small cubes in order to get a good look at it from every angle (cubism); 3) excluding recognizable nature altogether, so that familiar associations would not obscure the geometric interest of the design (abstractionism...
...shattering impact of the atomic bomb on the political sensitivities of the world was accompanied by lesser waves of awareness that the men involved with the bomb had become legislators of a tremendous share of the future. Of these, Conant, because of the newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...