Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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OVER THE past few years, the radical movement at places like Harvard has been developing and acting upon an analysis of the University which sees the University's essential function as serving the interests of a certain class of people in our society. The first building block of this analysis is the fact that most members of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers are businessmen and their lawyers. Radical students have continued to draw ties between the operations of the University in research, education, and training, and the broader mechanisms of society-which are also...
...panel also opted for partial disarmament of the powerful Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs now function in a triple role, serving not only as commanders of their respective services and as military advisers to the President but also as military staff in the chain of operational command between the Secretary of Defense and forces in the field. The Fitzhugh panel would relieve the chiefs of their operational responsibilities, reassign the job to a single senior military officer with a separate staff...
Tentatively called the Common Cause, it would function as a kind of superlobby, mobilizing widespread pressure to attack the national failures that have occupied Gardner since he left HEW and assumed leadership of the National Urban Coalition in 1968-inadequate housing, unemployment, poor education, poverty. "The purpose," he said, "should be to revitalize and needle both of the parties, and also to revitalize politics and Government at every level. The solutions aren't mysterious. Talk to any able city councilman, state assemblyman, Governor or mayor. City government is archaic. Most state governments are feeble. Congressional reform is a familiar...
...contrast, our Minuteman is designed for no such first-strike function. It exists for retaliatory strikes on "soft" tar gets such as Soviet cities. Given this purpose, the Minuteman is hardly small; with its accuracy, it is capable of destroying on a one-for-one basis - one missile, one city...
...films by the Panthers and student radicals is not yet highly evolved; yet at this stage, the function of films by liberation groups must be primarily dissemination of information. (As is the function of The Black Panther Community News Service and Women's Lib publications such as Off Our Backs.) Felix Greene's China and Inside North Vietnam are good examples of the documentary forms as the dissemination of information. American people have been told so many times that the Huntley-Brinkley Show which they are shot up with every night is "news" that the documentary and newsreel are more...