Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, Staircase is a superior example of its genre. Much of its impact comes from Director Mulligan's eye for setting and atmosphere. His Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera, and his neighborhood is a horrifyingly typical New York slum street. His supporting cast, notably Sorrell Booke as the exasperated principal and Florence Stanley as a guidance counselor in love with instant evaluation, is ideal. So is Fred Karlin's musical score, in its ironic blending of baroque blandness and jungle throb...
...some cases, new machinery will dictate the size and kind of food that Americans eat. In trying to develop a mechanical strawberry harvester, Oregon State University scientists are experimenting with 6,000 varieties of berry to find one suitable for machine picking. The impact of mechanization is such, predicts International Harvester Economist Dr. L. S. Fife, that crops failing to lend themselves to mechanization "will cease to exist as common commodities. They will become delicacies obtainable only at high cost through scarce hand labor...
...grown strangely timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...chages are uproariously funny as everything topples into place. Composer Burg, also afraid to tamper with Brecht, accompanies each little comedy with imitation Kurt Weil orchestrations of imitation Kurt Weil melodies. But it's not that funny after a while and it blows to hell all hope of growing impact...
...What will the impact of living in Wellmet be on him and his life...