Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highlight of the evening for me was Allen Sapp's second Violin Sonata. The dry-tang texture of the first movement, caused by the conflict of harmonies between violin and piano, combines with the many melodies to give a very striking effect. Perhaps the finest moment in the piece comes in the carefully built-up climax of the second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really...
...baseball had more to worry about last week than who would play second base. Three black-robed U.S. Court of Appeals judges, sitting in as umpires on a $300,000 damage suit, prepared to call a play that could really hurt. In effect, baseball was told that its player contracts might be violating the U.S. antitrust laws and making "peons" out of professional ballplayers at the same time. Since baseball had been writing the same kind of contract for two generations, it was a little like being told, after years of married life, that the wedding wasn't legal...
Richard III is prentice Shakespeare (some have argued that it is not all his) and in it the early Bard catches only the surfaces of evil. But he gives Richard two thoroughly vivid characteristics: a malign, gloating wit and a flamboyant love of effect. The role is an actor's dream because Richard is himself forever acting-throwing not a dark veil but a bright light round his hypocrisies, welcoming, not wincing at his bloody crimes. Seldom has there been such joy of villainy...
That gave Christiana the distinction of paying out 99.9% of earnings and the biggest dividend of any U.S. company required by law to make a public report. It also gave the public a clue to the income of the famed Du Pont clan. Christiana, formed in 1915, is in effect the Du Pont family's own investment trust, in which the Du Ponts own or control 79,859 shares. Christiana owns 27.42% of the common stock of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which, besides making explosives and Cellophane, owns 22.67% of General Motors and 60.17% of Remington Arms...
...book worth careful reading. One is an early story of childhood called The End of the Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor...