Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built-in function of the form is that the audience knows that it is watching a play and no suspended disbelief is called for. At one point, one of the players reminds the viewers that the play would be much more enjoyable if we could just imagine Gargantua (Kris Kobach) to be about 30 or 40 feet taller. This is not theater as real life or theater as social statement, it's just theater as theater...
...time, a frustrated Southern said she did not understand how the department could function with both an executive committee and a chairman. She said the administration had not involved her in crucial policy decisions during her absence, and left the chairmanship "bewildered" and somewhat bitter...
...think it's a very positive contribution," said South African Law School student and alliance member llanaC. Hurwitz. "It serves a dual function: it serves both the Boston community and the South African Black community...
Despite this universally recognized need for more doctors in rural and inner city areas, Harvard Medical School has only indirectly addressed the problem of health care maldistribution, according to physicians there. The function of the Medical School is to educate students and to provide them with learning opportunities, not to pursue social goals, counters Federman...
...terrors of Harvard Square fulfill a vital function for the University, one very much like that played by the swamps and crocodiles around Devil's Island. No matter how badly a prisoner or student may want to escape, five minutes outside the gate will have him screaming to get back...