Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Streets. The revival came in 1954, when Juracy took over. He came out strongly for "stimulation of foreign investment." For the "lunch-pailers" he plugged "free, autonomous trade unions." Brazil, he said, must be a "cordial, independent ally of the U.S." By 1955 the campaign was taking effect; in that year's election U.D.N. made a good showing against Kubitschek, who won on a minority of the vote, edged by with 3,077,400 votes to the U.D.N...
...Covered Throne. For the duration of the conclave the cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
...comedian, but their material wears out so fast. Me, I've got the best writers in the world writing for me-guys like Verdi, Puccini, Bizet." For all his clowning, Merrill is a deadly serious artist who uses his peculiarly suave, resonant and firmly centered baritone to excellent effect, particularly in the roles Warren neglects-Carmen's Escamillo, The Barber Figaro, Don Carlo's Rodrigo...
This odd contrast of styles has a crippling effect on Salamanca's torrential first novel, which carries Jim Blackstarr from his fourth to his 17th year in and around Charlottesville, Va. The book is drunk on nature, the round of the seasons, the beauty of women. Whatever lucky Jim wants in females he gets, whether it is Neighbor Betty Lee, whose "cool firm thighs were like two great silver carp," or Cousin Nory, whose thighs, "with their milk-white, melon-firm flesh, struck his mind with ruinous astonishment." or Schoolteacher Irene, whose thighs are "like moist and mobile alabaster...
...just a bit too difficult; the players combine spirit with effort and in the field of amateur musical performances, such enthusiasm is indispensable. If, as was occasionally the case last Friday evening, there are moments when things get out of hand, these moments are justified by the overall effect of a concert virtually devoid of the apathy and stiffness which had characterized the Orchestra in recent years...