Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catastrophic Effect. Another point agreed on without much fuss was that most modern art, like most art of any period, is second-rate or worse. "We have lived," said British Critic Raymond Mortimer, "[in an art age] dominated by a few men of extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music...
...have found that five times as many cadet officers come from the top ten percent in physical aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while heaven knows how many battered opponents have been left to wonder if their defeat wasn't perhaps the result of some deep-seated maladjustment...
...overall effect of science on men's minds has been bad," John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, declared at the first fall meeting of the Students' Association for the Natural and Social Sciences last night in Littauer auditorium...
...importance. Not only the collection of battle flags in the Chapel or the many statues and monuments to the dead are there to remind him of "the long, grey line" of Cadets that have preceded him, but such customs as the "Plebe system" itself contribute to the total effect of being one with the past...
Contrary to widespread student rumors, last spring's Coop robbery has had no effect on the refunds. The money was completely covered by insurance...