Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was all, but for one day it made a cataclysm in the barometric topography of the U. S. New England suddenly found itself at the bottom of an atmospheric abyss between two great plateaus (see map). The effect would hardly have been much more catastrophic had a new Grand Canyon of the Colorado suddenly opened in the Connecticut Valley...
...shores, but never has a hurricane struck a region so thickly populated and so unprepared. Inattentive to weather reports, many a landsman had his first intimation that the wind and rain were more than an equinoctial storm, when he had a "funny feeling'' in his ears-the effect of sudden low pressure, like that of going up in an elevator...
Chicago Highlife and Just Too Soon (Earl Hines; Hot Record Society, 303 Fifth Ave.). The impeccable fingering of Pianist Hines's earlier period revived to good effect...
When the voice of Columbia's Hindus told of going to a Prague dinner party and finding his fellow guests carrying gas masks, the effect was one unattainable in written journalism. Equally stirring was the account of the Czech mobilization from the New York Herald Tribune's Walter B. Kerr. As Mr. Kerr spoke his grave words, offstage noise was made by the drone of gathering airplanes...
...power of Evans' work," says Critic Lincoln Kirstein in an excited but penetrating commentary, "lies in the fact that he so details the effect of circumstances on familiar specimens that the single face, the single house, the single street, strikes with the strength of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered...