Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sontag's arguments are eloquent and stimulating, posing necessary questions about the meaning and effect of the photography boom. But there is also a disturbing sense in which Sontag is unfair to photography, a sense in which she sounds very much the New York intellectual ready to reject photography for being too popular. In a passage dripping with arrogance and elitism, she writes...
...Warren Professor of American History, have more serious quarrels with the Report. Handlin feels that the report over-emphasizes the peculiar historical position of the Negro and is too pessimistic about the Negro's potential ability to improve his own lot. Such a distorted perspective, he feels, is in effect racist and can have a debilitating effect on Negroes...
...Somerville by midnight. This enforcement of the letter of the law echoes the campaign Cambridge has waged against Avatar, and the Somerville officials' pristine distaste for those they label undesirables is particularly loathesome. Once off Somerville's streets, the runaways do cease to be Somerville's problem, but the effect of the city's action is to obstruct the efforts of those trying to help the youths...
...humor usually registers somewhat below Swiftian satire, as when he writes that the Air Force's contingency plans for Puerto Santos calls for bombing "with maximum emphasis on winning the hearts and minds of the people." Much of the novel bears this slightly self-satisfied straining for effect. As a glimpse of Foggy Bottom, The Triumph has its uses; but its tone begins to grate under the suspicion that the author is enjoying himself more than his performance justifies...
...jury, the defendants were being made to risk a harsher punishment if they chose jury trial; by pleading guilty or by asking to be tried by a judge alone, they would not face death. Speaking for a 6-2 majority, Justice Potter Stewart found the argument persuasive. "The inevitable effect," he wrote, "is, of course, to discourage assertion of the Fifth Amendment right not to plead guilty and to deter exercise of the Sixth Amendment right to demand a jury trial...