Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This we shall continue to do until a satisfactory plan for international control of atomic energy is achieved. We shall also continue to examine all those factors that effect our program for peace and this country's security...
...drape wore his hair seaweed-long. His shirt was pastel pink and buttoned at the throat (no tie); the jacket was loose, wraparound and without lapels. But the distinctive mark was the black zaks-slacks, that is, that are sharply nipped at the bottom to a narrow cuff. The effect was something between a sagging pair of plus fours and badly fitting jodhpurs...
...this peak point of the play, The Cocktail Party, however didactic, is exceedingly effective. The final scene, however, badly overlengthens and considerably flattens and weakens the play; robs it, for all its substance, of the right, full-bodied effect. Dramatically, The Cocktail Party is a number of shining pieces rather than a satisfactory whole...
...rhythm does. Yet there are echoes of Eliot's own verse and a few faintly Elizabethan ones; examples of his skill in having characters pick up one another's phrases like dropped cues; and of speeches in which a key word is repeated several times with fine effect...
Good melodrama, like good farce, has its nonrealistic rules; it lowers actuality to heighten effect. The Man violates the rules. Once criminality is portrayed as a kind of malignant disease, it is hardly better than cancer as a theme for entertainment...