Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon, their feat was far more than a national triumph.* It was a stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years?an instant in evolutionary chronology?emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the optimistic premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...
...expatriates in Honduras, Salvadorans have excelled as farm workers and shopkeepers. Increasingly, Hondurans began to resent the Salvadoran intruders, who sometimes took jobs and land away from local people. Honduras last year decreed a land reform, ostensibly to create more equitable distribution of its farm acreage. But one major effect was to deny Salvadorans the right to own land. Many Salvadorans, forced off their Honduran farms, began to return to their overcrowded homeland...
...influenced Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionists. He hit upon the method on a visit to Morocco in 1832. He found that by counterpointing color opposites, which by the law of optics fused in the eye to form gray, he could attain at once a strong effect and a sense of overall harmony. The validity of his theory can be traced in an unusually delicate if cloyingly romantic painting, the 1854 idyll Turkish Women Bathing. The Greek statuary and the languid maidens seem a bit ridiculous, but its true quality lies in its handling of color...
...After 18 months, most of the 30 war widows who have participated in the group sessions seem to agree, "Thank God for the whole thing," says Johanna Book, a striking blonde of 32. "I had been running away from my problems " The key to the group's therapeutic effect is the shift it encourages from widow to single woman. The process can take six months or more, and involves a gradual emancipation from the first shock and later depression, self-recrimination, self-pity and feeling of helplessness. With the group serving as a sounding board, the widows...
...trip brings intense euphoria and a matchless sense of wellbeing, Philip believes that he is not achieving genuine pleasure but merely canceling out an underlying depression and boredom. Moreover, Philip contends, the habitual user becomes so preoccupied with the drug mystique and the subculture attending it that the effect is a narrowing of consciousness and a focusing of attention upon the drug world instead of the real one. This type of user may claim that he becomes more creative, but actually he becomes less productive, focusing entirely upon the present and ignoring future goals...