Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Matson joined the pianists in Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation to one another, however...
...Long Range Proving Ground, said Brigadier General William L. Richardson, U.S.A.F., should have a launching site within the continental U.S. and a range at least 3,000 miles long. At intervals along the first 500 miles, the range should have check points. There will have to be "impact areas" too, where the missiles can land without killing innocent bystanders. The range should have a climate not too cold or rainy...
Flowing Hope. Its success, witness after witness asserted, could not, and should not be measured in economic terms alone. The impact of EGA, said Secretary Acheson, had altered "the political atmosphere of an entire continent." Added W. Averell Harriman, ECA's European ambassador: "Hope, and the will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression...
...smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls on the walls of the White House. Hosanna...
...Television was also viewed with alarm, by religious leaders. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture . . . Much of what is still wholesome in our life will perish under the impact of this new visual aid . . ." Niebuhr noted scornfully that "prize fights seem to be the best subjects of television...