Word: function
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...based his objection on his assertion that an educational institution is not an "isolated entity," but serves a definite function to the rest of society. "It is the University's duty to establish and maintain the greatest degree of individual liberty possible," he said...
Like other Republican liberals he has never been an organization man. Not that he has contempt for professionals: he favors "the old pros" like Ohio's Bliss ("he's done quite a job") for the leadership of the National Committee. But he feels that theirs is a service function, "not a policy making one," and policy is the area he obviously prefers. He enjoys the Senate less as a legislative factory than as a forum where he can say what he believes and be heard...
Usurpation of Power. Harmony, as it happens, was the last thing the deputies achieved. The Anglo-Catholic publication American Church News denounced the vote as "an outrageous usurpation by the laity of the teaching function of the church," and as a slap at the "hundreds of courageous priests who have joined in the most significant social revolution of our time." Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to represent the Diocese of New York at the General Convention, thought so too. He walked out of the House of Deputies and went home...
Eddie is a longshoreman. A simple man, he is defined by his function. "I work on the waterfront," he says. He has, with much struggle, raised a niece. She has grown into a beautiful 17-year-old and, had there been a resident psychiatrist in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, he might have pronounced Carbone a substitute parent, with an unhealthy incestuous fixation...
...would "curb the Governor's Council" by taking away its authority over contracts and leases and most gubernatorial appointments. A relic of days when the Bay Colony hemmed and hawed with the Hanoverians, the Council has consistently thrown up hurdles to administrative harmony and efficiency. Also, its ratifying function invites corruption. Passage of Question #5 is essential to vigorous executive government...