Word: impactions
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...more than a jet charter would have cost), Dick and Pat hurried on to Hawaii, spent two days there island hopping. Nixon campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November. He was also testing his style and some of his "impact lines" for future use. Inevitably, he was draped with leis, let himself be kissed by Hawaiian maidens, showed up at a luau wearing a just-purchased electric-yellow sports shirt, ate gluey poi with his fingers in the native manner...
Robert Chapman, Director of the Loeb Drama Center, emphasized the "impact" necessary for drama. "College drama must undertake the effort to jolt theatre out of its complacency," he stated. Although the other two speakers did not follow Chapman's semi-militant tone, they agreed with his suggestion in principle...
Strengthening Grasp. Nixon's first move had the impact of a grand-slam homer in the last of the ninth. He called a press conference. A throng of newsmen, TV people and photographers crushed into a long, narrow room at the Conrad Hilton and fired shotgun questions. With each answer Nixon deftly assumed his strengthening grasp of leadership...
...idea sprang up after Calcutta, when the ship lay heavy with the fresh impact of Asia. "Everything was so moving," recalls one officer. "The poverty, the filth, the sickness, the pressure of Communism." Soon the ship buzzed with a plan: send an Asian boy to college. The crew approved unanimously-as long as they could choose the lad personally and keep an eye on him in home port Pearl Harbor...
...miner's cottage, with none of the 40-foot ear lobes that sometimes result from wide-screen intimacy. Spectacle is firmly resisted; a disastrous mine explosion is recorded merely by a faint tremor on the surface of a millpond beside which two lovers are lolling. The impact, of course, is twice as forceful as if the air had been filled with flying coal carts. Much of the dialogue is Lawrence's, and it is a reminder of what a remarkable dialogue writer he was. Says a rasp-tongued widow: "I like a man about the house...