Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as advertisers shunned a paper addressed almost exclusively to the city's trolley travelers. Townes vastly improved the paper, but was pulled out after two years-much too soon to have any permanent effect...
...last week wrestled with its own particular version of the great debate over racial integration. Gathered in Denver's City Auditorium for the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Church, 788 voting delegates fought -sometimes bitterly-over a report by a 70-member commission hat in effect recommended continuation of racial segregation in the administrative system of U.S. Methodism...
...days before the tone row had replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol. But in contrast to the cool, desiccated manner of European twelve-tone composers of the Schoenberg-Webern school, Riegger turned out propulsive, ruggedly rhythmic compositions full of jangling dissonances and roughhewn contrasts. The effect was sometimes as startling as an impressionist-styled canvas executed with a house painter's brush...
...which Riegger is perhaps best known-his Third Symphony (1947), which won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in the season of its première. In that fine work Riegger is at his abrasive best, putting night-wailing strings against the muscularly marching brasses in an effect that is taut, menacing and powerfully moving...
...idea cuts little ice with Schoolmaster Philip Marson, who prepared generations of Harvard men at famed Boston Latin School, the nation's oldest public school, which last week celebrated its 325th birthday. Marson's contention: Harvard's entrance requirements are at a record low. And the effect on Boston Latin-and all U.S. secondary schools-is disastrous...