Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminar program also suggests how much the influence of the General Education Committee has diminished during the last decade. Ten years ago the Committee would surely have been extensively consulted during the planning of such a program; this year it was presented with the accomplished fact, and told, in effect, that if it did not permit Gen Ed credit the entire Freshman year experiment would probably collapse...
While Mon Petit may play with reality, the audience remains aware that this is fiction, even surrealistic fiction. To heighten this effect, Kautner limits his palette so that orange (the oranges), black (the sophisticates), white (our boy and girl), and grey (the edifices of Paris) predominate. And, of course, the characters seem too attractive to be realistic. Horst Bucholz especially stands out as a sort of Jimmy Dean for the quality trade...
...each department will be prepared to implement" a non-Honors program, "different from that for Honors, but respectable in its own right." Although both the Houses and the Departments were thus vaguely implicated, neither was assigned the duty of proposing a specific non-Honors program or putting it into effect...
Discussing the role of the sales tax in the Boston mayoralty campaign, the governor felt that "the major part of this campaign was fought on the sales tax issue. But what effect that had on the election I don't know," since voters reasons are often capricious...
...public ready and willing to have a politically neutral good time. On the international front, in a scene reminiscent of Moscow May Days, the French paraded through the Concorde all their newest and finest military equipment. Jets trailing blue, white, and red streams flew overhead. The aerial effect was gaudy, but the material comparison with the Red Square extravaganza was pitiful. "The French Army," said an American observer, "is admirably prepared for World...