Word: effectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
...Geneva there was consternation-and something at last to talk about. Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...articles in this eleventh CRIMSON Commencement Supplement attempt to answer some questions essential to an understanding of the undergraduate and the College: What are the religious and political opinions of Harvard undergraduates? What transitions in attitudes have undergraduates experienced? What factors cause these changes and, more specifically, what effect does Harvard exert in molding the student's beliefs...
...these views present a God whose substance is so tenuous and vague that, like certain very rare gases, it becomes highly enigmatic to say that He is "there" at all. Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect on human life than the normal inhalation of argon. Most of these notions come close enough to Tillich's to be intellectually "shoe," however, and their conformity to the negative doctrines of some of the authorized Judaeo-Christian mystics gives them a certain eccentrically orthodox sanction that allows the West's religious tradition to appear superficially unbroken...
...Marshall Plan. But there are issues--such as the discussion of "permissible levels" of Strontium 90--where reporters digging for the facts and not just for a story perform a considerable service, and there are even times when the President can use his press conference to great effect (though Cater argues that this American "Question Period" has fallen on very hard times...