Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...party unity this way: "I think the division of the Republican Party grew from pragmatism on the part of some, the Republicans who said, 'Look what the Democrats are doing and they're staying in power. The only way for us, if we want to have any impact at all, is somehow to copy them.' This was where the split began to grow, because there were other people saying, 'Wait a minute. There is a great danger in following this path toward Government intervention.' " He made very clear his conviction that unity has been restored...
French neofascists have apparently had an impact way out of proportion to their numbers, which are quite few by most reckonings. The European Nationalist Union (F.N.E.) is the largest such group, with an estimated membership of only 200. Although uninterested in sophisticated political theory, neofascist street soldiers have found ideological shelter in the work of various writers, known collectively as the New Right, who support such Nazi notions as elitist education and genetic engineering. Warns Ory: "Every society produces marginal people ready to put on a uniform to mythify their delinquency. What is dangerous is a group of intellectuals...
...Impact of Space Photos. Many of the leaders of the ecological movement in the U.S. were originally stimulated to action by photographs of earth taken from space-pictures revealing a tiny, delicate and fragile world, exquisitely sensitive to the depredations of man, a meadow in the middle...
...folks rank high among those whose sets glow eight hours a day, the numbers tell nothing about how closely they watch or even why. Considering their frequent solitude, Hirsch suggests, TV "is probably more of a solution to their problems than a cause." Other students of TV's impact have also ignored a crucial human factor. Hirsch says: "The men in the white coats give viewers no credit for having personal experiences from which to draw moral significance...
Youngman thinks of his jokes as cartoons. They have the same impact; a simple image and a simple punch. His method is hit-and-run. If a joke flops, it doesn't matter. He's already into the next...