Word: impactions
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...From Here to Eternity" cleans up James Jones' novel without dissiapating its impact. Frank Sinatra is fine, as are Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, and Deborah Kerr. At the Capitol...
...rear of the aerial train, Flying Boxcar No. 29 dropped out of formation in the turbulent air-probably because of engine or propeller trouble. It nosed down and glided full into a "stick" of floating paratroopers from the plane ahead. Dented and damaged by the impact of their bodies, it slid down in a long death dive and vanished behind the pine tops. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane...
...vitals of the piano to stroke and pluck the strings (in How Old Is Song), the effect was gently harplike. One movement of his Violin Sonata sounded rather like a Danny Boy whose melody had been opened out like the parts of a dismantled Swiss watch. The Cowell impact was both easy and light...
...decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact on mankind...
Light after Darkness. Stevens' low point in Russia came not from anything that happened to him personally there, but from reading a book, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: "One should read that terrible book in Soviet Russia to experience its full impact, for it seems to be the Russia of today, lacking only the technical gadgets and a few refinements which time can bring...