Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shop's aged proprietor, Polish Actress Ida Kamińska, cannot comprehend Tono's function and assumes that he has been sent by the kindly government to be her assistant. She needs help; instead of being a rich source of profit, the shop consists of a few dozen empty button boxes, and only Jewish charity keeps it going. A deep affection grows up between the little carpenter and the woman-with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend...
...thirty years later. Even if one granted a professor the freedom to associate with with any group, didn't membership in the Communist party imply a loss of independence of mind, an adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology, and therefore the impairment of a teacher's purely academic function...
...role in the matter of contraception. The official policy of the UHS is straightforward:Members of a college health services staff may discuss with students any aspect of their private lives about which there is any concern. However, supervision of contraceptive practices of unmarried students is not an appropriate function for a college health service. To do so would suggest approval to many, implies that the college assumes responsibility which does not properly belong to it, and runs counter to the sincere wishes of the great majority of parents (and the law as well as in Massachusetts...
...union was contemplating organizing insurance company employees, the union paper struck a note of comic despair: "Can you imagine the national reaction to a strike of insurance salesmen?" Some labor leaders expect to develop new forms of cooperation with management, such as the industry-wide boards that already function in steel and coal...
...implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could be deemed a "minor function" of deaconesses and thus permissible. Finally the committee brought in a no-nonsense substitute resolution that flatly stated: "Deaconesses may not be permitted to administer the elements of the Holy Communion...