Word: function
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...PRIVATE FUNCTION...
Screenwriter Alan Bennett has described A Private Function as "the fulfillment of his long-held desire to write about a chiropodist and (Director Malcolm) Mowbray's wish to direct a film about a pig." In fact, they have larger issues to lance. Although the film is set during Clement Attlee's Labor reign, it applies just as ferociously to Margaret Thatcher's pinchpenny Britain. With its double-edged title and its tone of bitter whimsy, A Private Function asks to be taken as a hymn to the meanness of the human spirit, in ) which the one decent soul...
While the tutorials and offerings of the women's studies program would themselves satisfy a significant need, the existence of such a centralized academic resource would serve an equally important function: it would signal to other, traditional departments that Harvard is finally serious in its commitment to women's studies-- an indication that should spur these departments to increase the small number of courses they offer which examine women at all. And important scholars like Showalter might finally be persuaded to teach at Harvard...
Because social security benefits are paid directly from current tax receipts, future benefits do not represent money in the bank, he said. The idea is that while private savings and future social security benefits serve the same function for individuals, they have different effects on the economy...
Rakoff agrees that certain professors styles and personalities might not work well in the Experimental Program, and says that having two Experimental Sections next year will be the real test," because it will show whether the success of the current program is a function of professional style or structural superiority...