Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Faculty will be asked to vote on three motions of the Committee on Educational Policy representing, in effect, a toned-down version of the Visual Arts Committee's Report, which was made public last year...
Cautious Raytheon men do not want to predict what effect freeze-drying will have commercially. But they point out that freeze-dried foods can be shipped without costly refrigeration and stored on grocers' or housewives' shelves. The armed services are interested because of the possibility of supplying troops in the field with food that tastes as good as if it were fresh but weighs about one-fifth as much...
...this effort achieved only the opposite effect. Schoolchildren from whose classrooms the crucifixes had been stripped arranged for a different child to bring a crucifix from home each day, or else drew crosses on the walls. Even some party functionaries sought out remote churches to attend Mass and held clandestine church weddings late at night, the bride bringing her veil in a briefcase. Piety became a form of protest. Swedes began noticing that the Polish sailors visiting their ports did not swear the way they used to. Well, said the sailors, they'd rather be good than Communist...
...bachelor pavilion in Lake Wales, Fla. designed by Architect Mark Hampton for an atmosphere of elegant privacy and relaxation. The house, which cost an estimated $40,000 to build, is in effect a single room composed of "freestanding circles in a rectangle," with the kitchen and bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled...
...wife. Standing alone, his notes would have been interesting and not very readable. But Viscount Alanbrooke has been lucky in having the help of Co-Author Bryant, one of the most readable historians now living (Unfinished Victory, The Age of Elegance). Bryant has written what is, in effect, a narrative account of the war that adroitly interpolates his hero's diaries and notes. But unlike Bryant's objective histories, The Turn of the Tide has an air of special pleading, works too hard at the job of building up Alanbrooke and low-rating those who, like General Marshall...