Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most intense and longest-sustained artillery bombardments ever directed against a single objective. High point: the Communists fired 60,000 rounds from 300 guns on Sept. 11. The bombardment caused serious disruption on the supply beaches, smashed up two Chinese Nationalist airstrips, outgunned Nationalist artillerymen-but it had little effect on the morale of the dug-in Nationalist troops, many of them Formosans. As bombardment wore on, the Nationalists got emergency schooling from U.S. officers and noncoms on fast unloading techniques, deployed underwater demolition teams to blast out new beach approaches, used small LVTs pouring out of big LST transports...
Helped by MacLeish's dramatic use of Zuss and Nickles, Director Elia Kazan has to a certain degree given utterance the effect of action, though at a certain cost. He endows the second act with a kind of life, but on rhetorical, loud-speakered, high-pressured terms that avoid flatness by forfeiting severity. Moreover, the acting is uneven. Pat Hingle's J.B. has a homely appeal but has no inwardness; J.B.'s wife and J.B.'s comforters lack the proper skill. Despite its ingenuity and authority, J.B. cannot overcome certain difficulties that philosophic drama is heir...
...perhaps thank its stars not to boast any; this Twelfth Night, as directed by Michael Benthall, gets its fine effect from its ensemble effect. Actors who know how to speak Shakespeare, to do wonders with an intonation, know also how to join hands. Desmond Heeley, with his charming costumes and simple set resembling an old, delicately drawn tailpiece or design, knows how to achieve a background. There is for once in the theater the sense of letting something deathless prove its mettle and not of belaboring something lifeless to move its limbs...
Alberto di Jorio, 74, because of his efficiency is known in Vatican circles as the most American of the non-American cardinals. He served as secretary of the Conclave that elected Pope John, looks like a successful banker-which is what, in effect, he is. As secretary of the Institute for Works of Religion, he guides the Vatican bank, whose holdings he is said to have considerably augmented through shrewd investment...
...students must cram themselves with a classical language. "I'm not saying there aren't minds that don't expand with the classics," he said. "But all real advances in knowledge come from people who are doing what they like to do. We all know the effect on children of compulsory spinach and compulsory rhubarb; it's the same with compulsory learning. They say, 'It's spinach and to hell with...