Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lama is more than 500 years old, since he is the reincarnation of all his predecessors. By Western standards he is only 23. Each time a Dalai Lama dies, monks spend months and even years looking for a suitable boy child born after his death (a system that in effect makes for a powerful regency...
...than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...phrase now used in every economic argument is "administered prices." It crops up in union charges that business fails to cut prices in response to slackened demand, instead reduces volume and employment. It turns up in management charges that unions have set wages so high that wages, in effect, administer prices, keeping them high. Like an insistent musical theme, the phrase recurs in high-level talk that the Government may have to restore wage and price controls to keep down inflation. Where did the phrase originate? What does it mean...
...cumulative" poet interested in a flowing effect, Hodgson shuns brilliant images that grasp the eye. His life is the same way. Passersby are shocked at the disrepair of the farm that he has never worked, at the unruly weeds that he lets grow. An alert, clear-eyed man who looks 20 years younger than his age, Hodgson has no time for such practical things ("Time, you old gypsy man, / Will you not stay, / Put up your caravan / Just for one day?"). Says he in his musing, friendly tone: "What we have to consider is the brevity of life." His real...
...this is the weakest of the three novels, both because Mountolive himself is basically an uninteresting man and because the introduction of politics as the theme makes puppets of Justine, Nessim and Pursewarden. As in all political life, there is the effect of contrivance rather than spontaneity, of truckling to slogans rather than living by inner compulsions...