Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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October Rain. But did any campaign ever have a decisive effect in a race which seemed over before it began? This was not the first time that question had been raised. It had been brought up in 1936, when it was obvious from the outset that no Republican could hope to unhorse Franklin Roosevelt. It had been brought up even earlier, when Calvin Coolidge walked away with the 1924 election by sitting on a single pre-campaign pronouncement: "I am for economy. After that I am for more economy...
United Nations Case Boole (Sun. 6:45 p.m., CBS). A documentary series on the worldwide effect of U.N. actions...
...artist? Says Matisse: "Hard work." That sounded as if Matisse slaved over his paintings, and he does, though they never show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...
...appraise our people in dollars and cents [and] has made many a priest cold and cruel. It has made others vulgar and abusive . . . Many a time good Catholics would like to bring a non-Catholic friend to church, but they refrain from inviting him because they fear the effect of one of the tirades to which they are frequently subjected...
...effect, Little blamed the New Englanders for their troubles. Since 1921, he said, no new textile mill has been built in New England and the number of its spindles has been cut more than 75% to 5,000,000. More than a year ago, Little had warned that the plant's output would have to rise but it remained...