Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fogg has assembled most of Bourdelle's best and best-known independent works. His friezes and monuments obviously could not be collected. This is unfortunate, not only because of the quality of the work omitted, but because Bourdelle himself believed that sculpture fulfilled its highest function as an integral part of architecture. Bourdelle might have thought that the current exhibition gave an incomplete picture of his work. It does. But it gives a very impressive...
...schema does not reject papal infallibility, but it emphasizes the governing and teaching role of all bishops. It returns to the ancient teaching that the church is a family of dioceses governed by a college of bishops, among whom the Pope is simply one man with a special function...
Since man can live only about 36 hours without liver function, and three of the Denver patients lived longer than that, it is clear that the transplanted organs have worked. So did Joseph Bin-gel's, for eleven days. Then he died...
Japanese students tend to hold themselves apart as a separate class and seem to believe that the only way to demonstrate true political concern is by vociferous denunciation of the present government, according to Reischauer. The result is a sort of utopian movement whose sole function is criticism, and which is separated from the mainstream of politics in Japan. The students are forced onto the political periphery not only by their class aloofness, but by stringent electioneering laws which prohibit them from ringing doorbells and participating in other such campaign activities, considered "dirty" in Japan...
...energizer drugs are technically called monoamine-oxidase inhibitors because they seem to work as antagonists to the enzyme, monoamine oxidase, which destroys some of the amines essential to normal brain function. Working with Dr. William Sacks, a biochemist, Dr. Kline reasoned that it was all very well to muzzle the destroyer, but why not speed up the repair process by supplying the system with some of those amines? They decided to try 5-hydroxy-tryptophane because of its known importance in brain chemistry...