Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common denominator is a simplicity forced by economy, since, as the FORUM points out, "the church of the future . . . will have to be regarded as expendable. New York is currently witnessing the impact of present-day economy on the traditional concept of the church: the dramatic demolition of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, which Frank Lloyd Wright declared the finest in New York. Located on one of Fifth Avenue's costliest and most coveted corners [48th Street], it will make way for an office building...
...Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...
Military security has terribly hampered Vannevar Bush's discussion of the prospect of future war and its effect on what he calls "our society of free men." Bush, who as wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development probably knows as much about the impact of science on modern warfare as anyone, sets down a double thesis: that a forthcoming war will not be very different from World War II, and that a democracy should be capable of preparing itself to prevent such...
This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham-handed UMW boss...
...feature of this movie is the integrity of its producer, Claude Autant Lara, in moulding the story for the screen. The plot must have posed many problems in presentation, most of which have been solved quite nicely. M. Lara has managed to be adequately delicate without sacrificing too much impact...