Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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With Emancipation, the Negro was free to do as he pleased in America; but the hoped-for change in status did not come about. In effect, as the New York Post remarked about Senator Byrd's practice of shipping in West Indies Negroes to work in his Southern orchards at less than the U.S. minimum wage, the white man no longer owned his slaves; he rented them. Some individual Negoes were able to earn positions of esteem in the Negro community and even gained respect in the white community, insofar as they became the liasons and chief deferrers...
...implementation of the Supreme Court's 1954 school decision was evident, and where the Negro had been less intimidated than the deep South. After six years, there was "token integration" and little more in a number of school systems. Southern Negro college students recognized that token equality is in effect no equality...
Life in this country is only described in passing ("the tricky proliferation of America: an unfolding maze of Saturday movies, roller skating rinks, picnic grounds, church ladies, colored people...") but the beginning of the story has already indicated what effect it has had upon her parents: "They use paper napkins instead of the linen, rolled up in napkin rings; they like Pepperidge Farm bread and even Jello." The tale is, on a number of counts very sad, Miss Halley's prose is rich and evocative, and the story's exquisite construction succeeds in delaying the point until the very...
...Luria, professor of Microbiology at M.I.T., asserted that development has nothing to do with defense, that a deadlier weapon or larger stockpile is no protection. He further deplored the policy of the present Administration, which has refused to reaffirm a resolution made by President Roosevelt in 1943 to the effect that the U.S. would not use gas or germ warfare unless it was first used by an enemy...
...seems that quiet meditation or strong drink are all that remain for the farmers. The Kennedy program offers them only a streamlined version of the Democratic price support program which has been in effect since the war years. Although the Nixon program sets forth a definite plan to diminish surpluses, it also threatens literally to "abolish the farmers...