Word: function
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...original into third rate English, and tried to present it as a sort of Gilbert and Sullivan with real music. The producers of the Leverett House Figaro seem to think that there is some theatrical merit to da Ponti's book; if the libretto indeed has any function, it is as a bad example. Even Neil Simon would blush at the plot, the story of a newlywed bridegroom trying to keep his lecherous employer from exercising droit de seigneur...
...Harvard Information Transfer System (HITS) could function as a two-way closed-circuit television system capable of carrying ten channels of video information and two channels of digital information to various installations at Harvard. Potentially, the transmissions could serve academic, cultural, political and special interest groups...
Boggs and the Justice Department concur on that, though for different reasons. Said Kleindienst, appalled that Boggs would make the charge without proof at hand: "It's destructive to the country for people to believe that it's being done. How can a Congressman function if he feels his talks with his colleagues or his constituents are being overheard? We agree that it has a chilling effect, and we'd like to have a hearing to get rid of that feeling...
Implicit in the Watson-Crick model were the workings of DNA's other essential function: how it orders the production of proteins. These are also long and twisted helical molecules, but they are the actual building blocks rather than the genetic blueprints for living things. As such, proteins are immensely varied; there are many thousands of different kinds in the human body alone. The distinctive proteins that make up the cells of the eye, for example, differ from those of the kidneys or muscles. Despite their variety, however, all proteins are built from some of only 20 smaller and simpler...
...Primacy of Form: While individual contradictions-"content"-can be re-packaged and assimilated by the system, a structure of contradictions constitutes a practical, revolutionary tool: the dialectical method, which cannot be co-opted since its sole function is the destruction of the ruling order. The most useful revolutionary cinema, then, is one which translates into cinematic form that ultimate revolutionary weapon, class struggle...