Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cumulative effect of all these changes may not be instantly clear to the layman. But it certainly is clear to Pollack, who is now in charge of deploying the plan in Boston. Citing an impressive set of figures, Pollack is able to show how the health plan can offer better medical service at a lower total price...
...Scott I think your life as an entirely does more to effect the destiny of your species than any specific thing you do outside yourself. If you are happy being a farmer you will do more good than being an unhappy president. Create happiness, Scott. To create happiness it must have a solid constant foundation in yourself before you can help the species be happy. All else is a confusion and death. Our symbolic means of communication sprang from confusion, not peace. I think symbols often create further chaos. Think of the Neanderthal. Communication by lovely wave-lengths and perhaps...
...After all," she continued, "it could effect you, you know, the world...
...best as reflections of Harvard's repressive system, we declared them unnecessary. We were here to learn by free communication and self-expression. The conversation fluctuated between A's and B's. In particular, we filled that first cozy hour with a series of emotional assertions to the effect that none of us gave a damn about grades anyway. Suddenly the instructor remembered something. To make the grade curve appear somewhat realistic we need a couple C's. How about a few volunteers? Unanimous silence at last...
...rate, he certainly doesn't aim Shame at our minds, but instead succeeds in an overall effect. Making a non-intellectual film he has at last fused his talents as writer and director, and simultaneously bridged the space between his screen and his audience. Still, many of the devices he uses are vintage Bergman. Gaunt Max von Sydow, for example, plays the archteypal Bergman male--weak and childish, incapable of even killing a hen for supper, leaning on Liv Ullman, his strong loving wife (much like Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck in a happier film, Smiles of a Summer Night...