Word: impactions
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...Your truly perceptive Essay "The New American Jew" omits one important aspect, namely that the American Jew is much more at home in the American than in the Jewish culture. Inadequate Jewish education that rarely reaches the high school level and the impact of Hollywood and other mass media are denuding the American Jew of his Jewish qualities...
...Frenchmen consider him French anyway (he has a second studio in Saché). But last week more than 13 tons of the New World descended upon Paris in the largest exhibition of American sculpture ever shown in Europe. The site, of all places, was the Rodin Museum, and the impact nothing short of formidable...
Henry Robinson Luce, LL.D., Editorial Chairman, Time Inc. The history of our century could not be written without recognizing the impact upon journalism and opinion of publications you have fathered, which now reach more than fifty million readers on this earth -with every prospect of future editions for other planets to come...
...impact upon a witness of the knowledge that he is being viewed by a vast audience is simply incalculable. Some may be demoralized and frightened, some cocky and given to overstatement; memories may falter, as with anyone speaking publicly, and accuracy of statement may be severely undermined...
...impact on the defendant is "a form of mental-if not physical-harassment, resembling a police line-up or the third degree. The inevitable close-ups of his gestures and expressions during the ordeal of his trial might well transgress his personal sensibilities, his dignity, and his ability to concentrate on the proceedings before him-sometimes the difference between life and death-dispassionately, freely and without the distraction of wide public surveillance. A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena...