Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways in which eye diseases might affect an artist's use of form and color. As your readers have pointed out, the primary objection to any such mechanistic explanation is that, however distorted the individual's perception, subject and rendering ought to tally. Yet this self-correcting effect does not always seem to operate. Tests have shown that a circle, viewed through an astigmatic lens, will be seen and reproduced as an ellipse; further evidence can be found in the practice and comments of various artists known to have been astigmatic or colorblind...
After Sundown. The effect of this "friendly warning" on the Gaillard government was electric. When the crucial Cabinet meeting opened at 9 a.m., right-wing ministers were breathing heavily over U.S. "interference in French affairs," adamantly proclaiming their determination to resign rather than agree to "excessive concessions" to Tunisia. But two hours after sundown, when liveried footmen finally flung open the doors to mark the end of the session, florid right-wing Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin told waiting reporters: "There have been no resignations. The government has reached a decision in principle...
...Party two months ago, tough-minded Wladyslaw Gomulka, who rose to power partially on the strength of his outspoken criticism of his predecessors' economic bungling, argued that impoverished Poland could no longer afford such inefficiency. His remedy: mass dismissal of surplus, lazy and unskilled workmen. In effect, he tacitly confessed that the price of Communist full employment is intolerably low productivity and a uniform level of poverty. A handful of hardcore Stalinists who have never reconciled themselves to Gomulka's lack of reverence for Russian economic and political practice fought the proposal bitterly, but in the end Gomulka...
When Rebel Fidel Castro's men called the strike, it turned out to be a classic of disorganization. Batista easily quelled it with units of the crack, 7,000-man National Police alone, and the cops went on to a brutal and exemplary mop-up. The effect was to cripple, perhaps for a long time, the general-strike psychology-the emotional willingness of soft-hooded amateurs to go up against the hardhanded professionals...
...have to take them as they are." The production-light, stylized, and done as a great sunny joke-was a tribute to TV's growing sophistication in the use of color. Ed Wittstein's sets, painted with cartoon-like sketchiness on a beige ground, gave an effect of air and space and no place in particular, left the color concentrated in the costumes; against the neutral background the disguised gallants were Turkish delights in their long Oriental coats, the women vivid in gleaming satins. Wrote Variety: "A memorable performance that simply could not be outdone . . . This was television...