Word: impactions
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Profitable Hours. The fact was that the policy was doomed from the start because it was made in a vacuum of unreality. It ran contrary to the basic policy of Britain's major ally, the U.S. (although U.S. policy fluttered indecisively under the impact of Eden's rebuff). Its premise was that the situation in IndoChina was an old-fashioned military stalemate, and that it was possible to negotiate with the Communists, even though, in this case, it was negotiation from weakness. Eden talked of not "prejudicing" the negotiations by hasty action, while the more realistic Communists prejudiced...
Potter's winning story, "Spades," is a naturalistic work on emotions experienced in factory life. Ellenbogen, in her story, pictured the impact of conditions in postwar Israel on a middle-class family...
...sold in the U.S. and Canada every month, about a quarter are what the trade calls "horror comics." They deserve the title. Last week, in Manhattan, the comic-book publishing center of the U.S., a three-man Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency began an investigation to find out "the impact upon adolescents" of horror comic books. The committee never found out exactly what the impact is, but it did get some interesting testimony on how comic books are distributed...
...impact of the archbishop's pronouncement was all the greater because he is a reserved, scholarly churchman who has always kept above the country's political controversies. For the government and its Communist friends, who have tried to give the impression that relations between church and state were close and friendly, it was a body blow. Indicating that his anti-Red crusade was only starting, the archbishop last week directed the clergy not only to read his message to their congregations, but to carry on the work actively by explaining the dangers of Communism to the people...
...German opera (Dafne), and was the man who managed to fuse solid German choral counterpoint with Italy's exciting new "concerted" style that combined voices and instruments. Schütz's music has long been shadowed by Bach, but once modern ears are accustomed to it, its impact is dramatic as well as spiritual...