Word: impactions
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...defeat's full impact landed on the world's doorstep with the morning newspapers. Editorial writers, who had been championing Stevens all week, denounced him. Cried the Richmond News Leader: "Mr. Stevens has . . . contributed to the delusion that McCarthy bestrides this nation like some Colossus, while petty men walk about under his huge legs." Said the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "Officials who get into a slugging match with McCarthy had best be sure in advance that they have loyal seconds in their corners, a Sunday punch in both fists and the stamina to stay...
...Murder in the Cathedral" is in the speeches of the chorus. Their fear of harm for Becket, their terror at his death, and the exultation that comes with their final recognition of his spiritual triumph, are expressed in some of the most beautiful poetry Eliot has written. The dramatic impact of the passage from doubt to certainty is tremendous...
...highly-stylized structure of the play, the settings themselves are crucial. The cathedral assumes almost the role of a character, for Eliot continually emphasizes that Becket, and indeed all saints, find salvation through the Church. That the murder is in a cathedral adds not only the dramatic impact of sacrilege, but shows the essential oneness of the saint and his Church. Many of the classic productions of "Murder in the Cathedral" have been staged in churches. In these productions--the audience far back and the action heightened by the mass of the architecture--the result is a feeling of aloofness...
...year ago, two noted Law School professor sent a letter to the CRIMSON which exerted powerful impact on the thinking of American educators regarding testimony before Congressional committees investigating Communism...
...from his car to hug the children. He shinnied up a Welcome arch so that one excited crowd could see him. He leaped a wire barricade to rescue a child in danger of being trampled. He joshed Communists who had called him "potbellied." That, said Panditji., was "vulgar." His impact was such that the Communists soon called off their attacks for the duration of his visit, and joined in the celebrations. "Welcome Pandit Nehru," their red banners read, but "Down with the Congress Party...