Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DuBois left Great Barrington to make his place in the world: to challenge and ultimately defeat Booker T. Washington: to found, in effect, the NAACP: and to become the father of twentieth century black intellectuals. His efforts to solve the American racial dilemma led him to take varied political positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this...
Shepard Brown'46, executive vice-president of Hunneman and Company and manager of the building, said yesterday that he has decided to retract the eviction notice, which would have taken effect next Friday...
...form of improvisational theatre. But improvisational theatre is like a magic show, because we don't actually improvise from scratch. And the audience knows that the rabbit just doesn't appear. But how did it get there? A good magician, like a good director, uses illusion to achieve effect. People get pleasure out of seeing The Proposition, but they are not fulfilled...
...cutting the strip by spraying picloram, the same pesticide used by the U.S. military on the Demilitarized Zone in Viet Nam. The chemical kills sizable trees and brush vegetation for at least two years. In a letter to Secretary of State William Rogers this week, Nelson protests: "In effect, we are creating a North American DMZ, a sort of environmental disaster strip in the midst of some of the most magnificent wilderness country on earth...
...homosexual's vulnerability to blackmail and "exacerbates" his mental-health problems. The commission recommends that the U.S. follow the example of England, which two years ago legalized homosexual acts between consenting adults in private -as recommended by the celebrated Wolfenden report-and has suffered no discernible ill effects. The U.S., along with the Soviet Union, is one of the few countries in the world that have such strict proscriptions against homosexual practices. Since 1952, the sobersided American Law Institute has recommended that the individual states repeal such statutes. So far, only two have enacted a Wolfenden-type law-Illinois...