Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alley is just an entirely different world," muses Charles Denaburg, a white lawyer who sits occasionally as judge in Recorder's Court (police court). He doubts that more than a few policemen take bribes, and he also believes that a police crack-down on whiskey houses would have little effect. "If you made it a capital offense," he says, "they're going to drink and gamble...
...city's most powerful businessmen called in the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a middle-class minister who had helped organize the courthouse march. They promised that if the boycott were called off, Negroes would be in uniform by the third week in April; not seeing a way to effect the boycott in any event, Lowery agreed. The businessmen kept their promise. "When these racial things flare up, who gets it in the neck?" rasped one of them afterwards. "City Hall? Hell...
...best works at the Rigelhaupt are by artists who ignore philosophy entirely and concentrate on visual effect. Though these works are technically complex, sketches show that every effect is carefully anticipated. Stephen Antonakos and Victor Millonzi play with the unique relationship between light and space embodied by neon. As Millonzi points out, "Light as sculptural mass can create forms that contain space and light instead of displacing it." Millonzi's work is a carefully balanced contrast between aluminum and flashing neon; first the angular volume of the metal dominates and then the spreading light. Antonakos' sculpture is more complex, with...
...Ipcress File) Furie's oblique camera work, which teases the eye into viewing dangerously grinning Mexicans and other signs of violence from what seem to be safe, shadowy hiding places in the immediate vicinity. Unhappily, it proves to be a mirage effect that lures an audience on and on, through dusty mesas and vaporous characterizations, toward nothing in particular...
Many planners do agree that any large-scale training program will have to be conducted at least in part by private organizations, such as universities, churches, and service groups. Some Harvard officials have interpreted remarks by James Reston to this effect as a signal that Washington will look to the universities for help in establishing the program. So far no one at Harvard is working on the problem...