Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other evils of the first act were also technical, and secondarily dramatic. Shaw's Pygmalion contains five short and concise acts. This structure was deemed inconvenient by the Wellesley group, and so the play was aborted into one long act and two short ones. The effect of this was to drag out the woe-filled first act to the point of boredom. The Players tried to make up for this in a superbly done second act, and thought to leave the audience with a good going-home impression with the third. A favorable word should be added, though...
...postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought I'd just write one more letter to the editor before the Republican-economy 4? postage goes into effect...
...Secretary of State cannot make treaties without Senate approval, but a U.S. aide explained that Dulles had, in effect, only done something like signing agreements with three nations individually. The importance of the move, said the aide, was chiefly psychological, since the U.S. is already pledged to aid Turkey under NATO, Pakistan through SEATO, and Iran under the congressional resolution known as the Eisenhower Doctrine...
...censure motion approved by an absolute majority. More crippling yet, the Assembly would have virtually no direct control over defense, basic economic policy or-apart from treaty ratification-over the conduct of foreign affairs. Any legislation which the government demanded as a matter of confidence would go into effect without a vote unless the Assembly passed a censure motion within three days...
...Green and George Orwell, at Oxford with Evelyn Waugh, proves that he is not out of place in such company. He is by any standard an important comic if not satiric novelist. Unfortunately infatuated with detail, Powell sometimes seems to obey a new novelist's commandment to the effect that he shall not describe a character unless he describes his neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his ass and anything that is his neighbor's. But through such means, Powell tells a story of the between wars doldrums of England in a style...