Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among labor leaders. He backed Eisenhower for President in both 1952 and 1956. During the great McCarthy noise, he was the only labor leader of note to go on record with a resounding good word for the late Senator from Wisconsin. But never had Gray dissented with such devastating effect as he did in urging a labor-sponsored wage freeze just as labor leaders were getting ready for a big wage-boost offensive...
...Victims of far-advanced cancer enjoyed a marked "mood elevation," complained less of pain (thus needed fewer narcotics), gained weight, though iproniazid had no effect on their disease...
...school of medical opinion has held that birth injury (usually from high forceps) is the commonest cause; also, that the nature of symptoms depends on just which part of the brain was damaged. Dr. Perlstein long ago became convinced that these were oversimplifications, set out to pinpoint cause and effect in the only way possible: study the living patients in detail, keeping a minute record of symptoms, then examine their brains after death to see which symptoms go with what type of brain damage. Parents of palsied children who have been studied in this way are asked to permit...
With apt and expressive detail, Inge has set his scene and animated it. Helped by extremely good acting, Director Elia Kazan has given the play a full-bodied, full-businessed stage life. A moment is tense, a scene is touching, the author obviously cares, the general effect is thoroughly his own. Yet the general effect has a somewhat ploppy, India-rubberlike impact. Playwright Inge's most definitive quality-his feeling for human lostness-becomes a little too insistent. It does not emerge from the characters; it tends, instead, to shape them. In the circumstances, the play's very...
...directors round the world. After long pondering the future of her collection (she once offered to will it to famed Renaissance Specialist Bernard Berenson, now 92, and was laughingly refused), Peggy called in her attorneys to set up a foundation that would permanently preserve her palazzo collection, thus in effect bequeathing it to the Venetians...