Word: impactions
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With green eyes and a Gardol smile, he has an appeal to women that approximates Lena Horne's impact on men. Yet for all his public charm, he is an inner-directed man in an outer-directed profession. Even his closest staff aides have accepted the fact that he insists on making key decisions alone. In his climb to the Senate, Brooke has brought to bear the caution of the colored man, the self-confidence of the mulatto, and the conservatism of a family that was civil-service oriented...
Long Road. Onscreen, Caine's impact seems half visceral, half sociological. He is professionally at home in such separate skins as those of an Establishment army officer or a U.S. Southerner, but his soul seems to belong to his working-class roles. He is that new hero, the chap who is supposedly above class-but if he really is, why does he keep aggressively displaying his non-U traits and compulsively needling Old Blighty's oldest values? With Caine, all this springs from something deeper than dialogue and technique, as does his mock-deadly appeal to women...
...rebutting Harris, Lowenstein focused on the criteria of efficacy: students, he said, could have a considerably impact on government policy; but they must appeal to the "broad middle" of the American public, accomplishing with large numbers what they might not be able to do with sheer intensity of feeling...
They wanted to say something new and forceful; and yet, the tone of moderation and reasonableness was vital to their impact on the Administration and their widespread support among students. If they attempted to include more specific criticisms or options--on the bombing or negotiations, for example-they risked losing their coaltion. And, after all, they lacked the expertise to debate the Administration on military strategy...
Their letters and statements so far have expressed, very effectively and accurately, the vague sense of dissatisfaction which most students feel toward the war. And their warnings of further "erosion of confidence" have surely had some impact on the Administration's thinking...