Word: impactions
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Natural Ripening. Despite what one Adenauer aide called "the impact of De Gaulle's charme virile on the Old Gentleman," the distance the Chancellor could travel down the road with the French
Musical Stunts. Tape's impact on commercial recording followed soon on the Signal Corps discovery: the adoption of 33⅓ r.p.m. as a standard speed for records would have been less practical had not tape-splicing techniques done away with the necessity of a perfect studio performance. Tape also made possible such stunts as Jascha Heifetz' singlehanded recording of the Bach D Minor Concerto for Two Violins and the famed recording of Patti Page singing the Tennessee Waltz over her own voice. But music lovers did not at first welcome prerecorded tape with open ears, despite its admitted...
...strike, the mighty Southern Pacific Co. virtually guaranteed to keep on all of its telegraphers until retirement or death. Last week, refused a similar settlement by the nation's fourth longest railroad, the Chicago & North Western, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Order of Railroad Telegraphers was staging a strike whose impact was felt far beyond the line's 10,702 miles of track...
...rebellious individualism. Just as Cummings began writing verse, Ezra Pound and the Imagists had turned old poetic practice upside down. Cummings was quick to follow them in tossing out high-flown poetic rhetoric and shucking off the straitjacket of traditional verse forms. Above all, the Imagist doctrine of quick impact was made for Cummings. Explaining his own techniques, he said: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk. viz.: 'Would you hit a woman with a baby?-No, I'd hit her with a brick...
Danska cuts restlessly from image to image, dims the screen to deceive the eye, blurs the voices to confuse the ear. Why? To diminish the impact of each part of the picture, to force the spectator to see it whole...