Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Attracting endowment and talent is difficult for a little-known school with constantly rising costs. But Holland treats this problem more as a conspiracy than as an obvious, though distinctly unfortunate, fact. The very small, new or specialized institutions would naturally not have the endowment of others; and, in effect, most have scholarships for all in the form of low tuition...
...built up over the years, and the usually funny personage doesn't fit into the play Shakespeare wrote. Lahr overacts, as does almost everyone in this production. His most irritating mannerism was an overuse of the forefinger. He brandished it and he gesticulated with it, to no purpose or effect. He was sometimes funny in the final scenes, when the offending digit was subtracted (perhaps out of fear that his colleague, Lion, would snap...
...reliance upon nuclear deterrence creates a moral climate that is plainly corrupting, for it inevitably tends to commit us and our opponents to policies which may condemn the unborn and the non-belligerents to extermination. By mutual provocation and propaganda, military personnel on both sides acquire the power to effect the moral climate of our time, to project their ethic on the whole of life as it has developed on earth...
...came closer to lying); Kennedy even accepted without comment or quarrel Nixon's assertion that the two candidates differ not on the goals for America, but only on the means by which to attain them. There is, after all, a point at which a difference on means becomes in effect a difference on ends...
...team, they recall witty Broadway Writers (On the Town) Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who last year appeared in a highly successful show of their own material. But, more subtly, Nichols and May deal in slightly distorted reproductions of accurate sounds, and the effect, which depends upon audience recognition, is subcutaneous. Their material-never written down-is charged with excellent one-line jokes, whether a disk jockey tells a movie starlet that Spencer Tracy was supposed to play the title role in the film biography of Gertrude Stein, or a playwright called Alabama Gross describes his heroine as someone...