Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intimated--that no Negro can be happy or fulfilled in any current milieu. Negro or white. My own experience leads me to believe that this is simply untrue. It is more difficult for the Negro (many whites find it hard), but it can be done. Fulfillment is a function not of race or condition but of temperament. It is not necessary to the cause of Negro rights to hang a load of guilt on the Negro who seeks some solace in the here...
...students and dons, as do the Houses at Harvard. The colleges at Oxford were established for 600 years before departments were thought of, and today the Master of a college is still a considerably more imposing figure than the chairman of a department. Admitting students is still a college function though steps are being taken, ever so slowly, toward centralizing applications...
...Oxford clubs the social function, though present, is a subordinate one. The Conservative Association, for example, with one eighth of Oxford's 8,800 undergraduates in its membership, is the very model of an active political party, complete with inner groupings known as the Carlton and Blue Ribbon Clubs--both junior versions of the London Carlton Club and Bow Group respectively, and both dedicated to the political education of their members. The famous Oxford Union, the famous Oxford Union, the closest thing at Oxford to the Hasty Pudding, is a model parties represented; a vote is taken after a four...
...public's capacity to respond to the best that is in you. I should hope that sometimes you would cancel the ratings and keep the programs. It's not accuracy I'm particularly worried about. I just don't think it's the function of broadcasters simply to count eyeballs...
...stifling the virtues of self-reliance and industry." As applied by bumbling bureaucrats, the doctrine meant that food (Indian corn mostly) should only be distributed by private agencies. Private traders (though few existed) should import the stuff. Exporters should on no account be hindered in their natural economic function. As a result, oats were carried to the docks for export past starving...