Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society from which they have escaped. Early in the film, Clyde lends his revolver to an old farmer, who takes revenge on the bank that has repossesed his house by shooting up the sign they have placed on his lawn. It is the act of shooting, not its effect, that gives Bonnie and Clyde their stature. Both they and their admirers are curiously blind to the impact of the slaughter they inflict...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council last night formally recognized, in effect, the Students' Committee on Parietals...
...Mother's House is splendid. Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) keeps his camera close to his subjects, frequently narrowing the field of vision to a telling detail-a hand on a sleeve, a pouring pitcher, a pair of eyes-again and again creating the effect of a sequence of stunning stills that build and sustain the mood. The children, though, are Clayton's triumph. Each of them is such an accomplished scene stealer that it is hard to tell whether the director deserves more credit for evoking acting ability in his brood or for keeping...
...transformed education, elevated the morals of France, inspired the Romantic movement and the French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect on posterity than any other writer or thinker of that eighteenth century in which writers were more influential than they had ever been before...
...effect, we are declaring our own parietal hours," Neil P. Katz '68, another spokesman for the group, said last night. "Students are mature enough to hold the decision-making power in an issue like parietals." Katz added...