Word: effect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshman, who wished to remain anonymous, said. "Even if the Corporation were to withdraw from South Africa, it wouldn't have any positive effect on the situation between the blacks and the whites," in the country...
...announcement, many Americans raised questions about the propriety of striking so hard at high law-enforcement officials who were trying-however misguidedly-to do their job in a crisis situation. Similar reservations were raised when former CIA Director Richard Helms was charged with two misdemeanor counts for, in effect, lying to a Senate committee in denying that his agency had tried to stop Salvador Allende Gossens' 1970 election as President of Chile. Helms pleaded no contest but justified his actions on national security grounds...
...full-time treasurer was necessary. In the '50s and '60s treasurers used their own private investment firms to help manage the portfolio, but when George F. Bennett '33 resigned as treasurer in 1973, citing an impossible workload as the cause, Harvard decided to change the system. Bennett had in effect two full-time jobs, one at Harvard and one as president of his own firm, so Harvard decided its next treasurer would devote himself almost completely to University business. As part of the far-reaching financial reorganization that marked the early years of President Bok's administration, the corporation formed...
Meanwhile, the United Front is sponsoring a march from Radcliffe to the Yard, and a general boycott of afternoon classes so all students can participate in a mass demonstration during today's Corporation meeting. What effect they will have remains to be seen--despite the chain of advising from the IRRC to the ACSR to the Corporate subcommittees, despite student protest and petitions, despite ACSR and Corporation open hearings, despite the southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the United Front, once again the actual decision comes down to the Harvard Corporation, as it always has, and probably always will. Legally, that...
...speed and then tossing us back into the razzle-dazzle. Ragsdale choreographs persons and not feet; every limb has its moment in the spotlight, bobbing bodies trade steps from one corner of the stage to another--and when all that fascinating business converges into a single group motion, the effect is exhilarating. The chorus slides into the dancing with an ease and assurance that makes it seem like an extension of their everyday movements--and how nice it is to see the leads plunged wholeheartedly into the chorus numbers instead of the usual segregation. One has the feeling that everyone...