Word: impactions
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...your March 23, 1962, issue, you ran an article about politics and business in Guatemala that contained innuendoes about President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. I am writing you now because of the impact of that article upon this leader, whose recent publication My War with Communism I have just read...
...Miller's uninhibited autobiographical candor poses for playgoer and critic alike the disconcerting task of judging the conduct of his life and his code for the conduct of life. Yet to dispute Miller's moral conclusions, or lack of them, is not to deny the jarring impact of his play, which Director Elia Kazan has charged with theatrical electricity. Fall is endlessly fascinating, emotionally harrowing, and consumingly committed to telling the truth as Miller sees...
With its occasional fuzzy lines and perhaps a disproportionate amount of time spent on the Miller-Monroe affair (though even this is doubtless the result of being true to its impact on the memory of Quentin-Miller), After the Fall is not so nearly perfect a creation as Death of a Salesman, but it is much more ambitious--both in content and in form. Miller wrote some 5,000 pages in order to get a working script of 180 pages, which took well over four hours to play. During the rehearsal period Miller trimmed and revised, and the work...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...
Some companies are already working on the problem - but the Government believes that the industry as a whole is not worried enough about it. Washington has set up several study groups to look into the possible impact of cutbacks on the economy, and the Pentagon has sent Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Barber barnstorming the nation to prod management. Said Barber to a group of defense industry executives in Boston last week: "What you have got to face is that the markets you're in are going to diminish, and that you've got to create new products...