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Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
The general effect is tragic.
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.
The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
He is, rather, concerned with the effect on society and he wants the poets to join his fight for justice.
In Krutch's view, this is one way to show how literature may be moral in effect without employing the explicit methods of a moralist.
If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law -- and one of its principal aims.
Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.
The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.
A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.
A 5-percent royalty is paid on any production during the period the contract is in effect ; ;
A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.
Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.
The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.

effect and sensitive
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.
At these very high vacuums the effect of photon radiation pressure on the vanes can be observed in very sensitive apparatus ( see Nichols radiometer ) but this is insufficient to cause rotation.
It typically requires a sensitive analytical balance to detect the effect and modern measurements on paramagnetic materials are often conducted with a SQUID magnetometer.
The resistance due to this effect is tiny compared with that of non-superconducting materials, but must be taken into account in sensitive experiments.
The transmission coefficient for FTIR is highly sensitive to the spacing between the high index media ( the function is approximately exponential until the gap is almost closed ), so this effect has often been used to modulate optical transmission and reflection with a large dynamic range.
SC-cut crystals are designed to minimize the frequency effect of mounting stress and they are therefore less sensitive to vibration.
Erhard was an outsider who supported the resistance, who personally and professionally rejected Nazism, and who endorsed efforts to effect a sensitive, intelligent approach to economic revival during the approaching postwar period.
This mechanism makes thermate more suitable than thermite for incendiary purposes and for emergency destruction of sensitive equipment ( e. g. cryptographic devices ), as thermite's effect is more localized.
One can compensate for this effect by using more sensitive photodetectors or by increasing the intensity of the illuminating laser point source.
The Second World War had a profound effect on Brzezinski, stating in an interview ; " The extraordinary violence that was perpetrated against Poland did affect my perception of the world, and made me much more sensitive to the fact that a great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle.
The overall effect could be a vivid evocation of a scene as perceived by a sensitive observer.
Based on package ingredient labeling and MSDS, it appears that the enhancement of female sexual arousal effect is from the PEG, a skin irritant, increasing blood flow to the clitoris and other sensitive areas.
The color perception of a light source of a given color temperature changes with the luminance ( brightness ) due to the Purkinje effect: the wavelength of light for which the eye is most sensitive depends on the luminance.
Reduced volume of extracellular fluid also has this effect, but is a less sensitive mechanism.
# End-Benefit Effect The effect refers to the relationship a given purchase has to a larger overall benefit, and is divided into two parts: Derived demand: The more sensitive buyers are to the price of the end benefit, the more sensitive they will be to the prices of those products that contribute to that benefit.
In this reactive region, not only is an electromagnetic wave being radiated outward into far-space but there is a " reactive " component to the electromagnetic field, meaning that the nature of the field around the antenna is sensitive to, and reacts to, EM absorption in this region ( this is not true for absorption far from the antenna, which has no effect on the transmitter or antenna near-field ).
An avalanche photodiode ( APD ) is a highly sensitive semiconductor electronic device that exploits the photoelectric effect to convert light to electricity.
People working with sensitive information are commonly required to sign a statement to the effect that they agree to abide by the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act.
Air sensitive cannula used in synthetic chemistry. In biological research, a push-pull cannula, which both withdraws and injects fluid, can be used to determine the effect of a certain chemical on a specific cell.
* SQUIDs, or superconducting quantum interference devices, are very sensitive magnetometers that operate via the Josephson effect.
A blue filter mimics the effect of older orthochromatic film, or even older film sensitive only to blue light, rendering blue as light and red and green as dark, showing blue skies as overcast with no contrast between sky and clouds, darkening blond hair, making blue eyes nearly white and red lips nearly black.
He also successfully proved Christian Doppler's theory on the effect of motion of the color of stars, and the resulting shift of absorption lines, via the invention of a very sensitive spectroscope which he named " Reversionspectroscope ".
Another effect that makes skyglow from white light sources worse than from yellow arises from the Purkinje effect, where the eye becomes more sensitive to bluer / whiter light when adapted to low light levels, as experienced under night time conditions.

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