Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anchors Aweigh. The effect of the announcement on Louis Denfeld and other naval officers was both strange and pathetic. Denfeld learned he had been fired only when Vice Admiral John Dale Price (who had gotten the news from a reporter) burst into his office and blurted: "Admiral, the President has just relieved you as Chief of Naval Operations." Denfeld looked up incredulously, said, in an odd voice, "Is that so?" and lapsed into stunned silence. Later he wept. Also he became a hero to the service...
...immediate effect, they concede, is chiefly political rather than military. Zaisser's army is impressive proof to them of Soviet Russia's earnestness in the struggle for Germany and Europe...
...Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers had won the strike (TIME, Sept. 26), the NLRB unanimously ruled that the "conditions of employment" were illegal. They were, said the board, a "bargaining strategy... to effect the exclusion of non-union men, squarely in conflict with the [Taft-Hartley] Act." The board ordered the union to stop discriminating against non-union men, and bargain in good faith...
...humanity the musical, like the novel, brings a real humaneness and makes a frontal emotional assault that has strong popular appeal. It is indeed the very pull of the thing that, for want of judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has been greatly simplified, the effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave...
...Long Ride. This, says Asch in effect, is how it might have been. He has borrowed from the Gospels, borrowed from the Apocrypha, borrowed from the traditions of Jewish life. His central purpose has been to make Christians and Jews realize what they have in common: "It has been my intention to demonstrate the interdependence of the two faiths in the hope that mutual understanding might bring about a better world...