Word: impactions
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...still Presbyterians. McCord is delighted that the majority plan to enter the pastoral ministry rather than seek a career in scholarship. Says he: "I've never seen a stronger motivation to service." Because of its close ties to the Presbyterian Church, Princeton Theological has never had the international impact of such formidable nondenominational institutions as Harvard's Divinity School or Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary...
Sidney Goldfarb, who has published before in the Crimson Review and Pharaetra, contributes three poems which I like very much. They show a good grasp of tone and an ability to restore impact to everyday phrases and imagery. Goldfarb avoids the purple passage, the overblown metaphor, and the "poetic" sentiment so common in the verse of young poets. instead, he turns out stanzas like these two from Mrs. Willy Cavanaugh, I Remember...
...then, with your feet together and your eyes on the horizon, you the ground. Upon impact, you can lapse and roll...
...planned to raise his own prices by 3%-though he had condemned the steel price rise as "unconscionable." In one of the week's most notable non sequiturs, Haas quickly withdrew his raises because "although our business has absolutely no relation to steel, we feel that the impact of any increase would be bad at this time...
Adding to the impact of the British hubbub was an Italian law prohibiting tobacco advertising entirely. Though Italy's cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...