Word: function
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...liberal. Rather, they strike at a very moral problem between the Supreme Court's responsibility and the exercise of that responsibility." He recently wrote, "few, I think, would wish to challenge...the underlying moral principle that one in whom the responsibility is reposed should in truth perform the function. Few would disagree, I believe, with the diagnosis that optimum conditions do not now exist for the work of the Court and that there is every reason to expect that the dimensions of the problems will grow even more severe...
What Freund fails to provide is a clear definition of time's function in the Supreme Court's work and whether time is the primary criterion for judicial screening and review. Though the number of hours each justice allots to his various duties is very important, it is not the principal determinant of wise jurisprudence...
...models of what a good abstract painting should be. The problem of uniting form and content, honesty and illusion is made almost symbolically explicit by the use of the inner color field and its surrounding borders. Each of those elements, in turn, has both a formal and a sensual function. The formal solution of drawing at the edge of the canvas satisfies a felt need to reflect the frame in the structure of the painting, but also allows old style, "painterly" handling to survive. (The styles of some of Olitski's edges can be read as homages to the paint...
Since the University's central function is the "pursuit of truth," the committee reasoned, Harvard could "best serve society" by "maintaining a neutral stance as a university on all political and social questions." Only when no room for argument exists among people who accept our basic socio-economic-political system," should the University risk a political stance...
Advocates have questioned the "objective" quality of IRRC's paper and the potential effectiveness IRRC can have given its present function it the movement for corporate responsibility...