Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week cannot be labelled a simple exercise in hoodlumism. The demonstrators succeeded in raising (and perhaps resolving) a major issue of University-community relations, and it is not at all clear that any amount of the peaceful placard carrying which critics of the protest advocate would have had this effect...
...deliberate attempt to show the dreary interchangeability of the adulterers.) The novel is seen largely through Piet's intelligence and sensibilities. Most of the other male characters are unreal, merely equipped with identifying jobs and stigmata. Updike paints Foxy and Angela full-length and achieves an equal effect in far fewer brush strokes with Marcia and Janet, two of the husband swappers. The trouble is that with some minor differences, he seems to have used the same woman as model for them all-a well-meaning, even-temped, sexually adept American frau with not a bitch or a shrew...
...interest ceiling (which the Johnson Administration has asked a reluctant Congress to repeal), almost all private lending institutions are willing to make them only at a big discount-that is to pay out about $9,200 for a mortgage with a face amount of $10,000. This has the effect of raising the return closer to 7%-a cost which homebuilders pass along to buyers disguised as a higher price for their homes. In a time of rising interest rates, when lending institutions demand increasing discounts, Fannie Mae faces a dilemma...
...Three Civil Rights bills have been passed, so things ought to be better," he observed recently, "but, if anything, the problem has become larger and more intractable. It's too big now for individuals to have any short run effect...
Secondly, students sometimes see in each others' work media used for effect instead of for a purpose integral to the motive idea. For example, it was remarked of the recent showing of a student thesis called The Production that color slides and a strobe seemed to be worked in just because they could be used, and not because the show called for them...