Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when dissension comes to be regarded as intolerable. Democracies must work in a tension between unity and dissent, majority rule and minority rights. But some underlying consensus about common direction is necessary, and that is now difficult to locate. "The lack of leadership is effect and not cause," says Historian Eugene Genovese. "It would be very difficult to point out a set of values about which you could say that most Americans could agree. I think our society has become largely purposeless...
...TIME's editors liked where they are heading. The list does not include many outstanding Americans who lead in the arts. The visionary architect, the composer, the actor, for example, may all make distinguished contributions to the quality of American life. But TIME was looking for people whose effect upon the society was?and will be?more tangible and direct...
...petty official who is frozen in an accident on his wedding day in 1929 and is defrosted in the Socialist world-state in 1979. This plot is barely intelligible in Peter Sellar's frenzied production, however. Mayakovsky's satire works mostly through verse, parody and puns--Sellars in effect obliterates all verbal content in frantic pursuit of visual pyrotechnics. Admittedly, The Bedbug demands to be staged as spectacle, but Mayakovsky also valued his words. Sellars' production reduces them to high-speed spurts of incomprehensibility...
...subordinated to a larger ethic: survival through storytelling. In Greece, the land of Homer, men classically reach immortality not by living a Christian life and going to Heaven, but through kleos, the everlasting glory conferred on men through poetry, heroic actions, and the telling of tales. They become, in effect, the defeaters of The theme is enlarged upon until finally, the boy, almost grown, decides, all "stories are good. Even if a story is about death, it's a good story. But death itself is not, there is no death that's a noble death...
...Holland added that he does not foresee any serious effects in the future. "We've already probably increased the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere by 15 to 20 per cent since 1850 and there's been no immediate effect on the earth's climate," he said...