Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the production a feeling of unevenness makes itself felt, unevenness in the pace (mostly to rushed), unevenness in the way the verse is road. The settings, while effective in a simple way, are too monotonous for a play with such brilliant potentialities. The total effect, in fact, is of pettiness rather than the richness called...
...effect, then, the officers of Student Government simply ignored the evident legal aspects of their decision, which meant that they had conducted their vote under false pretenses. They sacrificed legality in a blunt way for expediency...
...most incredible things about this incredible film is the fact that it isn't nearly as terrible as it sounds. In an odd sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor...
...bill would have no effect on the birth rate," Professor Sax said, "since 90 percent of the married couples in the Greater Boston area already use some form of contraceptive...
Bosth Rusher and officials of the Stassen movement, however, agreed that the results in the Wisconsin balloting would probably have an immediate effect in helping to boost the membership of both organizations...