Word: impactions
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...many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies are a special, and specially public, medium. Books present problems, too, as for instance Henry Miller's notorious Tropic of Cancer (see BOOKS). But even bestsellers have a smaller audience-and less direct impact-than any movie. Actually, the anti-Hollywood protests have been far milder than might have been expected, considering the varieties of erotica and sexual aberrations explored by today's film makers: fornication, adultery, incest, prostitution, pimping, nymphomania, voyeurism, frigidity, rape, homosexuality, cannibalism and necrophilia...
...Reginald H. Green is the recipient of the David A. Wells Prize for his thesis on "The International Impact on Southeast Asian Economies...
...Cuban disaster sent a chill through the chancelleries of Europe. A British official close to Macmillan observed that the fiasco in the Bay of Pigs "will incline us to take a second look at any proposal. One is inclined to wonder." In France, says a U.S. observer, the impact of Cuba was "catastrophic." Possibly because of their own impulsiveness, the French dread it in others. Paris gloomily noted Kennedy's original pledge to stay at home, to rely on normal diplomatic channels, and to enter on summit diplomacy only after careful preparation. They now fear that Kennedy...
With a price rise, steel profits in 1961 would obviously be even better. But given the inflationary impact of a price boost in steel, many a consumer-and many a businessman-hoped that the industry would pay attention to the warning delivered by President Kennedy in his second State of the Union message last week: "As recovery progresses, there will be temptations to seek unjustified price and wage increases. These we cannot afford...
...variety of other routine things-routine Intourist comedy, routine U.S.S.R. satire, routine romance, routine sentiment. The authors have fitted their occasional thoughtfulness and sense of balance inside a framework of hackwork so that the play, in the end, has no more sustained topical value than theatrical impact...