Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...
Under the twin impact of nationalism and resentment of Western exploitation, colonial, subservient Asia had begun to disintegrate decades ago. World War II had greatly accelerated the process. The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house. The French and Dutch, hungry and shivering at home, seemed particularly awkward in the role of guardians of empire...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
Specialists like these increased about 100% between 1920 and 1940 and have been increasing still faster under the impact of full production...
Nonetheless, Deep Are the Roots has social as well as theatrical impact because, though it botches its problems, it never blinks them; though the evidence is suspect, the indictments are valid...