Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Multiplying the Impact. The Kennedys were upset by the anti-Johnson bias of the book, but what really moved them to try to block its publication and serialization is the almost embarrassingly personal material on Jackie's reaction to the assassination. In talking to Manchester, Jackie was totally unguarded; she expected him to use his own judgment in sorting out what material should and should not be used. According to the Kennedys, his judgment...
Some of the anecdotes that he included have appeared before, but Manchester tells them through Jackie's eyes, thus multiplying the impact. One scene that agitated the Kennedys was his description of Jackie's horror-stricken reaction as she saw her husband's skull shattered by Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's last-and fatal-shot. Numbed and bewildered, she cradled her husband's head in her lap, sought to cover his gaping wound with her hand-as if by that act she could heal...
...fallen on Hanoi, but it was far from clear what that something was. While critics of U.S. bombing, from U Thant to the Vatican to Bertrand Russell, hastened to accuse the U.S. of escalating the war, Washington mumbled and fumbled until it was too late to erase the initial impact of the shrill reports...
...suffice. The introduction of universal, compulsory education in the 19th century gradually transformed American society. This was the great change. Present efforts to add a few years of schooling at one end or another, to extend the curriculum and improve facilities, while useful and important, cannot possibly have the impact of that first innovation. To the extent that the new programs are directed to persons who have trouble coping with the education system as it is, they will be even more costly and marginal in their effects. It is one thing to be concerned about a high school drop...
...spite of this situation social policy makers were required to operate in the dark, so that however much or little impact their programs might have neither they nor anyone else would have anything more than an intuitive, craftsmen's judgment of what worked and what did not, there would be nothing much else...