Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around by the staff at his Pierre Hotel headquarters in Manhattan for several weeks, and one of its staunchest advocates was Law Partner Leonard Garment-top media adviser in the campaign and one of the men who devised the question-and-answer TV format that Nixon used to good effect around the U.S. CBS Executive Frank Shakespeare, another Nixon TV counselor, hurried back from a Rio de Janeiro va cation early in the week and had the show ready to go on camera in a hectic 48 hours...
WIND ENSEMBLE literature has traditionally been dominated by the Sousa mentality, the effect of which has been the subjugation of ten thousand years of intellectual and spiritual development by the mindless necessities of a hundred yards of football sod. One of the most powerful arguments against the infinite perfectability and for the original sin of man is the steady accumulation of astoundingly vulgar pieces of brassy claptrap and woolly woodwind shrieks which feed the voracious football band. In the face of this surging ocean of treacle stand a handful of superb works for wind, three of which--Stravinsky...
Geoffrey P. Hellman, GSAS, suggested that Administration policy might be to build up a fear of major punishment and then "take a lot of wind out of our action" by being more lenient. "The overall effect would be at least as bad in terms of intimidation," he said...
...feeling after reading any of Kurt Vonnegut's novels (excepting, perhaps, the first, Player Piano) that at least we now know what the situation is, that any explanation of cause and effect just ignores several levels of complexity and will be soon invalidated...
...CHARACTERS accept major defeats when they happen because they accept everything that happens. They even come to beg for defeat when it becomes clear that influencing cause and effect, indeed determining the course of their own lives, is for them impossible. Mother Night opens with the voice of Vonnegut coming at us through the mouth of a Nazi war criminal sitting in an Israeli prison awaiting trial. At the end of the book he does himself in when he suddenly finds he has the evidence to acquit himself...