Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jane Britton, a 23-year-old graduate anthropology student at Harvard, was murdered in January. The embarrassed slum landlord turned out to be none other than Harvard itself, and the episode only further embittered some citizens of Cambridge who were already resentful of the university's increasingly inflationary impact on real estate values...
...further explosions in the ghetto will be met with an escalation of brutal repression. Though effective in presenting its message, it could have been done by a white cameraman sensitive to the subject. The film's rhythm, its irregularity notwithstanding, was not the prototype of a new concept. Its impact upon the audience was electric; but the film hardly represented a new genre of cinematography...
...BLACK film-making, if it is to be successful in its own right, must consider the filming of black drama as a point of departure, not as an end in itself. Filming black drama robs drama (as an art form) of most of its impact and, more importantly, limits the cinematic technique to the conventions of the stage. The result is a marginal product containing most of the vices--and few of the virtues--of each...
...growing impact of the conglomerates has been so great that even conservative businessmen, who usually complain about too much federal interference, are pleading for Government help in combatting their onslaught. The chances are that they will get it; the Government has lately begun to act as if "conglomeritis" is a virulent disease. Half a dozen agencies?including the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing...
...greatest authorities on the biological mechanism of heredity and on hereditary diseases. But throughout his career, he continued to embrace the "two cultures" and to pursue the world with a remarkably pragmatic sensibility. This quality is perhaps best illustrated by Haldane's conversion to vegetarianism under the impact of the Hindu doctrine of transmigrating souls. "Once you teach evolutionary biology to people with the Indian ideological background," he observed, "the distinction between eating goats and cannibalism appears rather thin. My claim to a more immortal soul than a goat's is not strong enough to justify...