Word: effective
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...your Essay on longer hair [Oct. 27], you fail to emphasize that long hair on a man is not feminine. The current difficulty of differentiating a male from a female is not due to long hair-or to clothing-but to the feminizing effect of shaving. Men were intended to have beards and women to have smooth cheeks. Men have chosen to violate our Creator's dictum-and we pay for it in blood every morning...
...half century of constant exposure to propaganda and an enforced ignorance of the rest of the world have had their effect on Russia's citizens, but the Communists have succeeded neither in expunging nor in radically shifting their deep human character traits. The Communist regime has obviously convinced most Russians of the virtues of social ism and persuaded them to take a class-conscious view of history. By its achievement, it seems to have given them more self-esteem and pride in their country than the mass of Russians have ever had before. Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose...
...bounced off the subject and picked up by one or more scanning microphones. At the same time, a sound signal of the same frequency is transmitted directly to the microphones. The two tones-reflected and direct-interfere with each other in a complex sound pattern that is, in effect, an acoustical "picture" of the object being scanned. The mixed pattern of sound is transmitted as electrical en rgy from the microphones to an oscilloscope-similar to a television picture tube. The oscilloscope then converts the electrical energy into light patterns. A special polaroid camera records a time exposure negative...
Conformal mappings, as these distortions are called, are important in the study of the effect of forces on bodies, such as the effect of wind currents on an airplane wing...
...very much of a withdrawal experience. . . . I like a sense of connection with other people and other things. I like to drink, of course, because of the sense of conviviality and celebration alcohol induces. . . . I don't believe lying around in a chemically induced trance is going to effect any changes for the better. As Gide said, 'Lucidity is my disease...