Word: effected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the changes approved by the Board will have the effect of stifling dissenting alumni and making it much harder for "unofficial" candidates--meaning those who do not support the administration's party line--to be elected...
...caps, denunciations and deaths of the Cultural Revolution may be more vivid than the fuzzy reports of recent events in Beijing. Even in Shanghai, China's largest city and a hotbed of pro-democracy activity just two weeks ago, the spy-on-your-neighbor campaign is having the intended effect. Says a Shanghai cabdriver: "Bad elements took over the student movement. The army bravely carried out its duties...
...Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against the measure. Since the Senate passed a similar version in April, Bush's plan to rescue the thrift industry is likely to go into effect next month...
...exemplars were, in poetry, Stephane Mallarme; in painting, Henri Matisse; in sculpture, Constantin Brancusi. Wilmarth was a man of wide visual curiosity, but of all modernist movements the one that interested him most was symbolism, which reached its height around 1890 under Mallarme's leadership and which, through its effect on Matisse and others, lay at the very root of 20th century art. For the symbolists, art was a matter of evocation, not description...
...nothing radical about steel. It was the bronze of modernism, the normal substance of constructed sculpture for the past 60 years and more. What was unusual was his decision to combine it with glass and thus make transparency, as much as spatial enclosure, a part of the sculptural effect. Wilmarth loved light. It was his madeleine, a trigger of memory, as a particular smell might be to others: "I associate the significant moments of my life with the character of light at the time." In fact, glass came before steel in his work of the early '70s, and some...