Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already been adjudicated, both administratively and judicially," snapped White. If a Communist "must be apprehended in the act of calling one political strike in one act of disloyalty before steps can be taken to exclude him from office, there is little or nothing left of the preventive or prophylactic function" of the provision...
...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...
Said Bellow: "The President intends in his own way to encourage American artists. I consider this event to be an official function, not a political occasion . . . Therefore I do not think it necessary to acquaint him with my position on Viet Nam or to send him a statement declaring that I am wholly opposed to the presence of marines in Santo Domingo . . . Mr. Johnson is not simply this country's principal policymaker. He is an institution. When he invites me to Washington, I accept in order to show my respect for his intentions and to honor his high office...
...perfusions; one who had three responded well to the first and second. Dr. Eiseman now believes that if pig-liver perfusions can be prolonged to 24 hours, they may be of real help in crises for hepatitis patients and cirrhosis victims who still have a little liver function remaining, and also for transplant recipients immediately after surgery if liver transplants ever become practicable...
...Negroes" consider themselves Afro-American. We are organized to examine a certain broad, though emotionally bounded, set of questions and images of our peoples' condition. If the proportion of "pure Caucasians" in the Association is displeasing to those who believe the myths of race, this circumstance is more a function of a) the paucity of "white" Africans on campus and b) the preference of some "white Afro-Americans to dissociate into other cultural groups, than it is of their premeditated exclusion...