Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have regarded it somewhat as a "charity bazaar." Says Hauser: "The impact of a military defeat upon the Japanese would be more violent, more revolutionary, more savage and more definite than in any other nation or society...
...continuation of free enterprise. ... A static economy means decay and ultimate regimentation. . . . Some see danger in bigness. They fear the concentration of economic power. . . . That is in a degree true. It simply means, however, that industrial management must expand its horizon of responsibility. ... It must consider the impact of its operations on the economy as a whole in relation to the social and economic welfare of the entire community. . . . Those charged with great industrial responsibility must become industrial statesmen...
...never received the consistent support it needs from students, particularly Harvard students. The traditional isolation of college undergraduates from community life has prevented, in large measure, effective cooperation on matters of common concern. But the acuteness of problems today, the immediate question, for example, of conscription and its impact upon the lives of students, and all youth, calls for joint consideration and action...
...flaws in it: 1) only meteorites a mile across could make some of these craters, whereas none larger than 20 feet across are known to have reached the earth; 2) though small exploding meteorites can make large craters, their holes are always circular, never oval, regardless of angle of impact, whereas most of the Carolina craters are oval...