Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cincinnati Kid has a jarring impact. Jessup describes the men and The Game in sharp, crackling prose; there is hardly a word of excess verbiage in his writing. Jessup's novel is one of those rare books you want to read again and again, to re-experience the tension of the story, and the starkness of his language and dialogue...
...where he will continue his leadership of the center, and Oxford, England, where he will do research, lie is currently working on a translation with revisions and noted of The Travels of lbn Buttuta, 1325-1359. Gibb, considered the leading scholar in his field in a specialist on the impact of the West on Arab society...
Slowed by earth's gravitation and not yet accelerated by the pull of the moon, the spacecraft would have to cruise for hours more, exposed to all the known and unknown hazards of space. One hour before impact, according to the plan, when it is about 4,000 miles from the moon, Goldstone would tell it to turn again, pointing its six TV cameras at the approaching lunar surface. With the moon 900 miles away and Ranger approaching at 4,000 m.p.h., the six cameras would start taking pictures-more than five per second. Radioed back to earth, those...
...your March 23, 1962, issue, you ran an article about politics and business in Guatemala that contained innuendoes about President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. I am writing you now because of the impact of that article upon this leader, whose recent publication My War with Communism I have just read...
...Miller's uninhibited autobiographical candor poses for playgoer and critic alike the disconcerting task of judging the conduct of his life and his code for the conduct of life. Yet to dispute Miller's moral conclusions, or lack of them, is not to deny the jarring impact of his play, which Director Elia Kazan has charged with theatrical electricity. Fall is endlessly fascinating, emotionally harrowing, and consumingly committed to telling the truth as Miller sees...