Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Burst of Drama. Whatever effect the Nixon-Rockefeller meeting might have on the political future of Nelson Rockefeller, it had a powerful impact on the Republican Convention and on the position of Richard Nixon in the coming campaign. Nixon's bold stroke brought a burst of drama into a convention that had seemed doomed to dullness, and it lent drama to the appearance before the convention this week of that exclusive Republican asset, the President of the U.S., whose total record during his two terms in office will, despite Nixon's pilgrimage to New York, constitute the core...
Caroms consists of eight shortish poems on various topics, displaying various degrees of skill. In all of them, however--and this is refreshing to see--the poet has worked slowly and carefully, has obviously weighed each word for accuracy and appropriateness, has listened for its value and effect. In his most successful poems, Mr. Sandy is a quiet and reflective poet, filtering his impressions through an attitude of thin irony; in his less effective poems he is a pyro-technician mixing together dissimilar images, and coming up with something considerably less impressive and less compelling than his more lucid work...
...bitter terms the character's satisfaction with his garden, but is also parodying Marvell's The Garden, a rather brilliant piece of allegorical poetry in which Marvell makes his garden the image for intense Platonic contemplation. As one thinks of The Garden, the extent of Sandy's bitterness, the effect of his sarcasm, becomes clear...
...performances of even so familiar a score as Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik often have the effect of surprise-not because of any personal eccentricities, but because Davis has the gift of illuminating faded colors and of silhouetting the thrust of familiar line and phrase...
...Opera owes its inspiration to John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the scene is London), someone remarks: "The rich have hard hearts -but weak nerves." The line is pure Brecht. He devoted his life to rattling those nerves, and never did he do it with less effect and more charm than in Threepenny Opera...