Word: effect
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Larry Clinton has taken the best parts, discarded the less valuable elements of "Reverie," and superimposed upon it the modern idiom of swing with superb effect. The result is the happiest since "Martha" took a new lease on life at the hands of swing and Connie Boswell. True, the subtle swaying rhythm has been sacrified to the accented rhythm of jazz and the chorale theme has been dropped; but the refreshing lack of a melodic sense of direction inherited from the original produces the most enhancing effect yet achieved in swing...
...view of recent incidents it seems desirable to call attention to a statement made by the Administrative Board last year to the effect that disturbances in the streets or in other public places as well as on university property become of great annoyance to the public and to the police and are likely to lead to serious consequences...
...correct a statement in Thursday morning's Crimson to the effect that Professor Harold J. Laski left Harvard under pressure following the Sacco-Vanzetti case? Laski was called to London in 1920, some time before the Sacco-Vanzetti case reached the headlines. Such "pressure" as may have hastened his departure was a result of his activities in the Boston police strike, in the autumn...
Whether or not continued pleas by Central Square patriots will have the desired effect of making the University " a city within a city" is more or less up to the Legislature now, but there's more than one college that has found political independence a decided asset...
Worst of the attitudes taken against American expressions of change and progress is that of a cheap, sensational press, of which the Boston American, especially because of its play-up of Granville Hicks, seems to be a hideous example. To increase its profits and effect the destructive editorial policy of a medievalist, the Hearst papers distort and lie about liberal activities to an audience unfortunately always ready to be deceived and aroused...