Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposedly blase French last week lined up along the Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before...
...woman, a child." This tension between geometric and biological forms is what has most distinguished his work ever since. It makes him one of the most admired and least understood sculptors, for Lipchitz' geometric parings and biomorphic bulgings combine to give a brutal and confused effect, like that of a life-and-death struggle in a gunny sack...
...there are many Catholics trying to find it. But not without risks. The basic mathematics concerning loss of faith scares some, shocks others, but we mentioned the lack of finality in our figures--and especially in this particular set--due to the small numbers and also to the uncertain effect of time. If asked by some Catholic we didn't know whether he should come to Harvard we would have no ready reply--it's too individual a matter
...respondents, however, was the religious tradition of their childhood a "very marked" influence. Most claimed that its effect on them was only "moderate," in the case not only of present Christians and Jews, but also with those now in no faith. Curiously, 40 per cent of those now belonging to no religious group wished to raise their children in the faith in which they were raised. On the basis of this data, we are encouraged to believe that the tradition in which these students were raised neither made them feel bound to it nor did it make them so resentful...
Harvard's main effect upon Protestantism and individual Protestants seems to be one of "reshaping." Less than one-third of the Protestants questioned by the CRIMSON poll felt themselves in "substantial" agreement with the tenets of their faith; the others continued in their religious tradition only with reservations or else rejected it completely...