Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sirs: In a recent issue [TIME, Sept. 2] you reported the attempt of Winston Churchill to cut down on the long-drawn-out and ultraformal expressions used in the English [civil] service. Quoted below is a memo which in effect says "No" to my sister's application to leave the British Isles...
...Family Reunion" is student-produced in its entirety. It is directed, staged and acted entirely by students. Even the overture and chorus-accompaniment were originally composed and are played with heightening effect by Allen Sapp '43. In atending the Dramatic Club's work you will be supporting and encouraging the efforts of these enterprising young artists--and will be affording yourself a rare experience in theatre which is guaranteed not to disappoint...
...reelection of President Roosevelt far overshadows in probable ultimate effect on the international situation any current military or diplomatic activities...
Neither side in the European war has the slightest doubt but what the action of the American electorate will result in maximum United States aid to Britain against the Axis powers. The effect upon the morale of the warring peoples is certain to be strong...
...Mozart does not ignore his environment; the environment is absorbed, digested, into the totality of his artistic experience. In Berlioz, as in any romantic composer, it is the mood of the moment, the specific, particular emotion which goes into the notes. In Mozart, any individual emotion has the effect of a deepened tingle to the entire content of the music. His music fulfills an old ideal of classicism, one which might be stated as the ideal of expressing all emotions while seeming to express no particular...