Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of the avant-garde had gone. This sudden metamorphosis of one of the popular clichés of art criticism into an unword took a great many people by surprise. For those who still believed that art had some practical revolutionary function, it was as baffling as the evaporation of the American radical left after 1970. But ideas exist for as long as people use them, and by 1976 "avant-garde" was a useless concept: social reality and actual behavior had rendered it obsolete. The ideal-social renewal by cultural challenge-had lasted 100 years, and its vanishing marked...
...four others for evidence of marijuana use. Then she received a critical letter from the girl who had been the victim of the hazing. The school's trustees were beginning to question Harris' competence. Said she: "It put a box on my life. I couldn't function from then on." Dabbing the tears from her eyes, she described her despair: "I wasn't sure who I was. I was a person sitting in an empty chair." Her only desire, she said, was to die and have her ashes scattered by the pond near Tarnower...
Desegregation may also give whites a better appreciation of American government, Willie continues. Upper- and middle-class whites often used to ignore court orders they didn't like, but desegregation taught them the function of the courts. "If Plessy vs. Ferguson [the 1896 decision authorizing 'separate but equal' facilities fro Blacks and whites] had been obeyed, segregation would have ended of its own accord because it would have been too expensive," Willie explains...
...unfortunate, I feel, that the new Seymour Society leaders display no awareness of this important cross-ethnic or cross-racial function that has been a crucial part of Afro-American Christianity. It is, I think, a feature of the Afro-American Christian tradition that the new Seymour Soceity, if it really wants to do something innovative, might consider rehabilitating...
...committee is expected to vote to confirm Haig this week, even without access to the tapes. However, the Senators plan to continue to seek any tapes relevant to Haig as part of their continuing oversight function, a process likely to take months...