Word: impactions
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...Brave. As the holiday passed and the first full impact of the strike hit the city, Lindsay went on television again and again to urge "nonessential people" to stay at home. "Every man when he looks at himself in the mirror when he's shaving in the morning likes to think of himself as essential," said the mayor. "But remember, there are degrees of essentiality." He gave daily bulletins about the strike and tried to encourage his constituents. "We must sweat it out," he said. "So I ask you to be very tough about it and very brave about...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...central impact of the mass murder lies in a double mischance; first, that Hickock and Smith should ever have found one another, each being the perfect complement in a mutuality predicated on a "big score"; second, that the Clutter family should have been chosen as victims, so incongruous a happening that it made Holcomb, Kansas, feel "like being told there...
...bare history, colored with reportorial irony, In Cold Blood would be merely suspenseful and provoking non-fiction. But it is a novel, for Capote, with singular grace, hovers between profound irony and melodrama--the irony of collision and the drama of a not inconsiderable sense of fate. The central impact of the amassed documentation derives from the compelling personality of the central figure, Perry Smith, and his belief in fate. By the time we have come to know Perry and his fated family, for whom the "solution" to life has frequently been violent suicide, we do not scorn this belief...
...maximum interest that banks may pay on time deposits of 30 days or more. Some of the combatants seem distinctly unhappy-but the battle is on. Like the reward for saving, the cost of borrowing has shot aloft in response to the Reserve Board's action. The impact has fallen chiefly on businessmen; by last week almost every commercial bank in the U.S. had lifted its minimum rate on commercial loans ½%-to 5% or more. Interest rates on home mortgages jumped by at least 0.1% in many areas; in Chicago the typical rate climbed from...