Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect the medium imposed a message and Dylan, newly cleansed by the hospital wards and the suburban woodland breeze, was ideally prepared to provide...
...line, under white pressure as well as black, eventually acceded to his demands that Negroes be allowed to sit in the front, and the boycott was termined. But the proposed Olympic boycott, which is aimed of course not at the Games but at the American society, would have little effect on discrimination in the United States...
...full course during their freshman year. The rationale seems a little exploitative--grab those freshmen while they're young and callow and haven't learned to avoid studying until reading period. The language departments will be cornering a share of the market of freshman academic eagerness--with the effect of decreasing the range of courses from which many freshmen will be able to choose...
...outsider's assessment of the company. Called in for the job, Dr. Heinrich Peesel, a Hamburg physicist, submitted a frankly "insulting" report that rapped Rollei for feeble R. & D. efforts and outdated production methods. Far from being insulted, the company hired Peesel to put his recommendations into effect. A youthful pragmatist who is now 42, Peesel had no taste for the European tradition of age in the executive suite; he brought in a young management team (average age: 38). Within a year, he saved $750,000 by cropping out 300 employees, many of whom "were just making work...
...show both imagination and care-and many do. One of his students this year did a four-minute movie on the theme of pregnancy, using dense filtered colors, quick cuts and even a touch of Underground technique: he doctored the film stock with scratches to help create an abstract effect. The point is not that any of the students are embryonic Eisensteins, says Sheratsky, but that "these kids, all of them, are thinking film...