Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feat lies neither in expert swordplay nor in improvising a poem about it, but rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue and the wit defer to the foot and the blade...
...effect, then ... is the equating of the Church with a stock character out of Central Casting to be trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George...
Miss Bettis (The Serpent, and Fusima) makes the most of her wonderfully modulated and deep-throated voice. As "the most subtle" Serpent she slightly lingers with superb effect over the sibilants that Shaw carefully placed in her speeches. Tolan (Cain, and Zozim) brings real fire to the role of the world's first transgressor of the Fifth and Sixth Commandments. Moss (Prof. Barnabas, Accountant General, and the Elderly Gentleman) manages to make individual his three well-seasoned men. John Granger (Strephon) and Dorothy Whitney (Chloe) round out the cast...
Despite the uncomfortable short-term effects on industrial expansion, few economists are seriously worried that the present capital shortage will harm the free world's economy over the long run. Most consider it an inevitable and, to some extent, desirable byproduct of worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important...
...total supply, as well as according to changes in the general price level. Now that the export program has cut the carryover, Secretary Benson will probably have to boost price supports for the current 1957 crop well beyond the 28.15? per Ib. price he set last February. The net effect, as Under Secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse wrote the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a fortnight ago, will be to encourage farmers to produce more cotton, which in turn will mean a higher surplus and one that will be even more expensive to dispose of abroad. Each additional penny...