Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of censorship, Faine agreed with Papp that receiving tax money would not increase attempts at control. "Grants to the arts would function under the same political climate as the rest of the country," Papp said. "There are always attempts to intimidate, dictate, and control even when you don't receive money. But if you develop a public, you become strong and can fight off censorship and enrich our democracy...
...many ways, the attitude of the lifeguard is close to Updike himself. The lifeguard performs the function of a sense organ; he is paid to observe closely the world around him. Updike, too, is concerned with the sensory experience. This is the basis for in details. But for Updike not enough to live life; one must understand the significance of individual experience...
Doctors who know how to treat the patient suffering from a virtually complete failure of kidney function find it far more difficult to treat kidney problems that are more numerous and less serious...
...most important, after the original tempest, Mr. Pusey continued blithely on a collision course: butting stubbornly against faculty and student opposition. Harvard is an oligarchy in theory, ruled by a self-perpetuating group of seven men, but in practice it can only function as a peculiar sort of democracy, in which the President acts either with the assent of those concerned, or with the carefully considered and deeply held belief that he is moving with the wave of the future. In 1958, Mr. Pusey, so deeply rooted in the past that he found it difficult to move even into...
George Burns' On the First Day of Christmas is a Gothic shocker in modern dress, complete with Freudian visions and dexadrine. Suicide and castration are legitimate, if sensational, topics, but in this case their function is more emetic than literary...