Word: impactions
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Wilson also discussed the impact on the novel of the revolutionary changes which have transformed English society in the past 15 years since the end of the war. Almost all contemporary British novelists, Wilson noted, have been faced with the need to adjust to drastic changes in their respective social classes...
...theory-kicking that made him a figure with impact. Still relatively unknown, he basks in the shadows of the men he influenced: T. S. Eliot, Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Epstein, et al. In a model of graciously written, cleanly organized scholarship, Hull University Lecturer Alun R. Jones has produced a definitive critical biography that places Hulme where he belongs, as one of the shapers of 20th century consciousness...
...government, this citizens' committee would compile a roster of overseas positions, recruit young men, run a three-month orientation course, assign participants to positions according to aptitudes, and maintain contact with them. As a "people-to-people" program, this private corps would, Melady argued, have "far more impact than a government operation, which, regardless of its good work, would be labeled as an instrument of American foreign policy...
...Coattails. Outwardly, as Kennedy sped swift as the hungry hummingbird through more than a dozen states, he showed no concern over the religion question (though he was prepared, if necessary, to go on TV to outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue the dollar...
...Republican leaders, the President's speech was gladdening evidence that he had not lost his old campaigner's touch, and a good omen for the political talks still to come. Ike had carefully prepared for its impact. On a cross-country "nonpolitical" tour for the past fortnight (TIME, Oct. 31), Ike generally confined his formal endorsements of the NixonLodge ticket to small gatherings of G.O.P. brass. In public he spoke instead on such broad national goals as fiscal soundness and the continuing struggle for world peace-but left no doubt as to who should score the goals...