Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...
Liberal Interpretation. In general, the impact of the ruling will be to open the way for more and larger class actions. For Eisen, the decision improved chances of regaining his money-almost. The biggest obstacle remaining is that federal rules provide that adequate notice must be given to other members of the class so that they can protect their interests or opt out if they wish...
...seismic impact of Johnson's withdrawal statement has only begun to be felt. Politically, it means a bitter battle for the succession among Democrats and an anguished reappraisal among Republicans concerning Richard Nixon's chances for election in November. Within the U.S., it could mark the beginning of a frenetic effort by Johnson to complete the record of domestic legislation that he wants to stand as history's yardstick for his presidency. In foreign affairs, it could bring more intense efforts to end the war?either by negotiations or by heavier fighting. In any event, the President no longer...
...Marxists, existentialists and assorted humanists has come the persistent message that the idea of God is an intellectual bogy that prevents man from claiming his mature heritage of freedom. In the U.S., which probably has a higher percentage of regular Sunday churchgoers than any other nation on earth, the impact of organized Christianity appears to be on the wane. One problem for the future of the churches is the indifference and even hostility toward them on the part of the young. Even those drawn to the person of Christ chafe against outmoded rules, irrelevant sermons, dogmas that apparently have...
...told, the TV coverage, thanks to past experience, was better organized than in previous times. Having learned to gauge the impact of TV's immediacy, NBC reporters on the streets avoided using the provocative word riot, and in at least two instances were told by their headquarters to breathe deeply and compose themselves before going on the air with their stories...