Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the Teacher's Union demonstrates. The day of the ivory tower is in its last hour-both because of the recognition by more and more faculty members (with Professor Matthiessen) that "there is no good thinking divorced the loss happy fact of war and its impact on scholarly "objectivity." In any other year Stange's article would have only a gram of truth; in this year it has not a particle...
...there is no French Army. Order is maintained by the local and national police. As yet there is singularly little expression of popular opinion. The French have been invaded or occupied in whole or in part 33 times in seven of their 19 centuries, but never with the paralyzing impact of the German Blitzkrieg last June...
Other Council reports in the past decade have dealt with the over-crowding of the Houses; the Faculty tenure system, and its impact on undergraduate instruction; and the relation between intramural and minor sports in the College athletic program...
...expression of the boredom, impatience, surfeit which he has lately shown toward the professional politicos of his party. Some shrewd observers had it figured out another way: that he had a gloomy conviction that Great Britain was going to be defeated within the next 60 days; that the impact of the defeat upon the U. S. people would nullify all the rules of a campaign year; that in the lurid light of such an event, ordinary political needs, courtesies, funds, managers, candidates, deals would make little difference; that it was no matter if Jim Farley went, if Jack Garner hunted...
...Married (20th Century-Fox), whose title was changed from I Married a Nazi, owes its impact to a simple and startling idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...