Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique...
...Committee on Houses established a special sub-committee yesterday to study and report on the impact Mather House, the College's planned 10th House, will have on the University when it opens...
Anti-Bugging. Westin also warns about the polygraph (lie detector) and personality tests that are sometimes required for employment. Worse still, he feels, could be the impact of computers. Already Americans leave a detailed trail of vital data about themselves-insurance questionnaires, loan applications, census forms, employment applications, tax returns, military and school records. If all of these are gathered into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card...
Westin would like to believe the time is ripe for such laws, and he says in conclusion that "American society now seems ready to face the impact of science on privacy." He points with hope to the fact that both far left and right share a distaste for the electronic invaders. But his reliance on the public may be too optimistic. As he indicates elsewhere in the book, public concern has blown hot over subliminal advertising, but has been only lukewarm in other areas. It shows no real sign of having changed...
Natural Eloquence. Despite the serialization and advance publicity that detailed much of Svetlana's story, there is a cumulative impact in the book that compels renewed attention. It has the special effect of a child describing some monstrous crime accidentally observed and only half understood, the special fascination of domestic detail mixed with horror and history-for instance, the dining room table around which her father habitually gathered the Politburo. Svetlana's mother shot herself after a trivial quarrel with Stalin. Her mother's relatives and intimates were victims of her father's paranoid suspicions...