Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mann's judgement about technical effects is often questionable. For example, in a scene outside Dr. Abelman's house in the Brooklyn slums, three teen-age Negroes throw beer cans at Woody Thrasher's white sedan as Thrasher drives away. This moment could have been quite eloquent, but some loud, over-dramatic background music destroyed the entire effect...
...disturbing to realize, during scenes like this, that the supposedly sensitive and intelligent men who make films such as The Last Angry Man feel that they must somehow explain to the audience every literate speech or subtle technical effect they use. And when it turns what might have been a thoroughly commendable effort into a slightly better than run-of-the-mill film, this kind of condescension is disastrous...
Such an election inevitably will have an effect on the operation of the Council. Each man has been elected largely on his own strength. His campaign promises have frequently been limited to protestations of faithful service to his supporters and the city at large, and, thus, if he has won election by hammering upon a controversial issue such as opposition to the belt route, he is likely to find few in the Council who will stand with him to push it through. For a well-oiled political machine must have followers as well as leaders, and nine politicians each leading...
Treasurer Lewis B. Oliver '61 has resigned from the Student Council for "personal reasons." The resignation will take effect immediately...
...Student Council acted wisely in sending the report on NDEA back to a committee. As originally presented, it never came near the excellent level of previous Council reports, being intemperate in language and exaggerated in scope. Such statements as, "Every student who signs the affidavit in effect forfeits the liberty of thought and expression guaranteed in the Bill of Rights... Should the slightest revolutionary idea enter his head, he commits a felony under the law," led one member of the Council to term the report "immaturely worded, overstated, and superficial...