Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Niagara of Faith. Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...
...there time?" asked Ebtehaj, echoing a major theme of the conference. "Is there time in which to effect these physical improvements in the standard of living, and yet to maintain the basic freedoms in which all of us here believe? We believe there is time−provided that our program in Iran responds to the spur of urgency. To such a spirit of urgency and decisiveness we are fully committed...
...underdeveloped country to establish its own Development Savings Bank. Depositors would be encouraged to save by making the money they put in the bank exempt from income taxes. But if such voluntary funds were inadequate, deductions would be made from payrolls in return for stock in new enterprises. In effect, the development bank would operate like an investment trust in the U.S., diffusing stock ownership over the maximum number of depositors and eliminating the risk of a bad investment that might wipe out a single investor's capital...
...hostile satellite is to shoot a modest rocket into its orbit, but moving in the opposite direction. The warhead would burst and fill the orbit with millions of small particles. Any one of these, hitting the satellite with twice its orbital speed (36,000 m.p.h.) would have the effect of a meteor, punching a hole and sending a blast of flame and shock into its interior...
...Gilbert Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist flushed and grated: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach!" Then the romantic spirit of the 19th century added its profound effect. Toward the end of that century, Albert Pinkham Ryder remarked that an artist "should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?" Extending that subjective spirit, Arthur Dove was painting abstractions...