Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rocks, that would help end the rule of the white sheep, because other rock owners would see what Vard did and do the same thing. But the Council of Owls said, "No, that would be like cutting and running. We believe in working within the system to effect change. We won't sell the rocks...
Will said that he does not feel American universities should sell their stock in corporations with operations in South Africa. Such actions would have little practical effect on the conditions of South African blacks, and would only serve to make the whole community more resistent to change, he said...
...awaited decision on the University's South African investment policy--neatly timed to diffuse student discontent and push any possible response into reading period--once again displays a tragic disregard for the larger moral and social issues surrounding the divestiture controversy. The Corporation's statement, released yesterday, means in effect that the University will do nothing beyond initiating a time-consuming case-by-case investigation into every Harvard holding in firms doing business with or in South Africa...
Director Sully Brown seems to have cast with an eye to physical appearance. This effect works particularly well when Hannah and the ghost of the Murgatroyd she renounced (David Haughton) sing the tale of their love; the actors literally embody the subjects of their song--a "pretty little flower" and a "big oak tree." Overall, the cast is in fine singing and speaking voice, though the stilted dialogue overpowers Weary at times, and Monnen's Cockney accent seems to have a mind of its own, coming and going at will. But there's no need to carp. Acting...
Right after the concert, in the streets and bars around Columbia, the effect of the concert was apparent. Joffe recalls stepping outside and seeing "a big group of people with their arms around each other. About half of them were SDS'ers and the other half were jocks. These people had not walked on the same side of the street in a year because this was the year after the big riots at Columbia... when I walked down Broadway, on every street corner, there were groups of people singing Oldies. And, if you went to any of the bars...