Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ease at moments and rarely does his characterization catch fire. The role of Charley, the nextdoor neighbor, is carried by John Coe with a sure touch and necessary comic relief. However, he rushes through the beautiful and poignant requiem quite wastefully and thus loses some of the cathartic effect of the play...
Nadia Boulanger, recently in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, said of them: "These artists refuse every kind of temptation--searching for effect, facile emotion and egoism. They have attempted distribution of light and shade without diminishing the importance of a note, a rest, a rhythm, or a line. The manner in which they have attained their objectives brings back the memory of Pugno and Eugene Ysaye...
...swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...conflict that threatened to destroy Lebanon-and to embroil the U.S.-was not exactly total war. In Beirut harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter...
Electronist Stockhausen started out as a comparatively conventional rebel in the Anton von Webern atonal vein but soon felt he had "dried up" and started looking for new effects. At Cologne he can get just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters plus generators that may rumble, screech, thunder, and produce other items of planned flatulence. By varying the signals sent to the 20 loudspeakers spotted about the auditorium, Stockhausen can make his sounds swoosh along a wall, tinkle in a corner or explode over the head of the audience. He first...