Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third cross-country speaking tour since September. From the Tulsa fairgrounds to Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, crowds in four states gathered for a boffo blend of patter and polemic that made party cash registers ring-a-ding. However, the Reagan charisma has had less impact on the populace at large. According to the latest polls, his national popularity has dipped dramatically in the past three months: he now trails President Johnson 33% to 55% and Richard Nixon 22% to 65% in popularity...
Under his guidance last year, the school's curriculum committee successfully proposed making all second-year courses elective. In 1967, he headed a private foundation task force studying the impact of law schools on world affairs...
...ridges spokes out over hundreds of miles of the moon's pock-marked surface. The scientists hoped to compare the composition of this terrain with that of the low-lying basically basaltic equatorial "seas," studied by earlier Surveyors. Since Tycho is believed to have been formed by the impact of a giant meteorite, and by the intense volcanic activity that followed, a look at ejected material surrounding the crater might provide the best clues yet to the internal composition and geological history of the moon...
Many people disapprove of what Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin Bernheimer calls the "climate of adulation" in which Mehta moves. But misguided as all the glamorization may be, it is still a tribute to the galvanizing impact of Mehta's performances...
Combining this with the truly sloppy stereotyping of Benjamin's parents and Elaine's law-school suitor, The Graduate doesn't hold water dramatically or structurally, and ultimately says nothing. Nichols' satire of the uppermiddle class establishment dates back 15 years, and has the impact of a butter knife. A thematic cop-out, The Graduate's simplistic affirmation of love, honesty, and individual liberation provide the cold comfort of a second-rate Aesop fable...