Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintain its pipeline to the immortals, the orchestra employs only Austrians. Its members' built-in self-assur ance serves a dual function. On the one hand, this guarantees a standard of performance for which the men themselves will fight, no matter who is on the podium. On the other, it can create a special kind of psychological hell for whoever dares to mount that podium...
...Rabb, financier, philanthropist, and member of Brandeis' Board of Trustees. Several months ago the Rabb Foundation, which is a family project, was discovered to be one of the many conduits for CIA financing. Last week, Irving Rabb was picketed by more than 200 people when he attended an honorary function at Brandeis...
Music on the Wall. What works well for the buildings works even better in Expo's experimental films. In the best of them, composer and film maker have worked out a new approach in which the musical scheme is elevated beyond its usual background function...
...idea became more familiar in domestic matters. It is pleasant to hear the New Left declare that the white liberal is the true enemy because it is he who keeps the present system going by limiting its excesses, but it is more the informed conservatives who perform that function--the Robert Tafts of the nation--and at the present juncture they are needed...
...proper utilization of appropriations, personnel, space and statistics to such serious and intricate questions as jurisdiction, judicial selection and disability, jury selection and management, calendar control, rule making and geographical organization of the courts. Apart from these varied problems, yet part of each of them, is the planning function of court administration. Such administration involves meeting not only the problems of the hour but anticipating the needs of the future and reassuring that our system of justice is geared to cope with the demands and responsibilities of the future...