Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After nearly a year of McClellan's dillydallying, Lincoln, in effect, demoted him by forming a whole new army under John Pope, who was to attack Lee anew. While he will not compare them on other grounds, Civil War Historian Bruce Catton notes at least one "striking" parallel between McClellan and General William Westmoreland. "McClellan was always saying he could do the job if they gave him more troops," observes Catton. "He always wanted more. Finally, Lincoln got tired of this and put him on the shelf. It seems that Westmoreland is in the same position...
...figured this year's federal tax due on $10,000 at $1,742 would next year owe an additional $131, based on a higher tax tor nine months. So urgent has the tax issue become that Washington has begun to talk about returning to the higher schedules in effect before 1964. In that event, next year's bill for the same taxpayer with the same income would climb...
...Electric Effect. Such innovations had an electric effect on company earnings, which had been under pressure during the early 1960s from some unprofitable acquisitions, as well as rising competition from Japanese camera makers. Since 1962, however, profits have more than tripled to last year's $ 11 million...
...Night. It was a job of acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen a man become a role so much," recalls Director Norman Jewison. "Two weeks after we started the picture it was almost impossible to talk to Rod Steiger because he was in a Southern dialect night...
...this is wondrously irrelevant to the overall lyric effect. Simon can be chided for the illusory pun of his title and for his helpful but distracting prefatory lines from Rilke: "It submerges us. We organize it. It falls to pieces. We organize it again and fall to pieces ourselves." But Simon is at ease with uncertainties and loose ends. In fact, loose ends are his antennae. How he uses them to convey his own private perceptions is his mystery...