Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really matter. Five actors carry off a performance of a play different from the kind they usually perform, and they carry it off superbly. I suspect that the conditions of this production have taught them a lot about their own acting, and this is not the least important function of student theatre. In producing The Pelican, Tom Babe enthralled his audience, fulfilled his responsibility to his cast, and effectively brought experimental workshop techniques back into the Loeb Experimental Theatre...
...moved into an apartment below some "known Soviet agents," turned to prostitution ($15 to $20 per customer), and struck up a friendship with Sévigny that lasted almost until her return to Germany in 1961. What was more, the Mounties said, Gerda told them that "at a social function in Ottawa, the Prime Minister of Canada had told her that she was doing a great thing for Canada and that Mr. Sévigny had great things to offer Canada...
...gamma-1 compound normally serves an entirely beneficial function. In this case, however, it also attaches itself to the cancer cells. But is unable to pierce their outer membranes...
...seemed logical to start a press in Cambridge, where there are commercial and academic publishing houses, but whose function is not to be artistically daring." Robinson explained. Identity Press hopes to fill is the vacuum with serious, non-academic, non-commercial writing, he continued...
...presenting these proposals, the HPC is in effect asking the members of the Gov Department to admit that imparting a specialized knowledge of their field is not their only, nor even necessarily their most important, function. That is a lot to ask of scholars. But the proposals were made in a constructive rather than critical spirit, and by giving them careful consideration the Department could make a real contribution to liberal education in a time of over-specialization...