Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts department of mental health sees everywhere a "new face of professionalism" turned toward social change. "Physicians, lawyers, ministers, city planners, architects, educators, engineers are emerging from the universities," he says, "with the sophisticated and critical perspective on their roles in society that John Dewey saw as the true function of education. The remarkable thing is that at a time of overwhelming technical sophistication, expertise and hyperspecialization, professionals are discovering a common purpose?the well-being of people...
...insult to injury, the yearbook did not bother to print biographies of the half-thousand seniors who did not have their pictures taken. It would perhaps be easier to forgive the rest of the inanities of this opus if it had at least lived up to its basic function of providing a record of the class...
There are no Massachusetts statutes which function as a "doctrine of attractive nuisance" either in part or in whole. "The state is inexcusably backward in its social responsibility in this area." Kaitz said...
...accept or even understand. But, as Williams explains, "King's color consciousness seems to have been a direct throwback to the social values of black Atlanta." In cities like Atlanta and Washington, where there is a sizable black middle class, color did, and to an extent continues to function as a criterion for acceptance into the upper realms of what E. Franklin Frazier, the black sociologist, termed "the society without substance." Cast after the mold of the white power and Puritan classes, the mores and attitudes of the middle class of the black South are "the direct result of national...
Died. Dr. Donald Dexter Van Slyke. 88, clinical chemist; of cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...