Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Carter should recognize the element of hypocrisy involved in protesting foreign subversion of U.S. political processes while the CIA conducts similar operations around the world. He should prohibit such activity in the future and limit the CIA to a purely intelligence gathering function...
...about this particular piece is that Glazer does a much better job explaining the same thesis in his longer work Affirmative Discrimination. Daedalus is simply a distillery for Glazer. We get his essence without getting any of the facts to attempt to back his contention. This shortcoming is a function of length; he cannot monopolize the 250 pages or so that he needs to explain and defend his thesis. Barring that, we must settle for an abbreviated historiography of discrimination and the naked conclusions he draws...
Robert Peabody '77 said he thinks it would be a "fun thing" to do. "I do this sort of work for Groton [his alma mater] and it's a good way to keep in touch with things and alumni. This would function the same way--but on a much larger scale...
...just any old chorus gets invited to even participate in the Music Festival in Spoleto, Italy. But only the finest of the groups in the world get invited to function as the Festival Chorus. The latter distinction was bestowed recently upon Harvard's Collegium Musicum, a collection of 70 amateur vocalists who combine to form a chorus of undeniably professional caliber. The mixed chorus of 70 who, as one member put it, "like to sing more than just about anything else," will present their first concert of the season this Friday night in St. Paul's Church...
...achieve was to try to put it over that they could trust me. I think we've got over that hump. I feel that Ian Smith feels exactly the same. If I can get the trust of the parties, then I can perform my real function, which is bridging." It is a function that Richard regards as essential for the success of the conference. "To be frank," he says, "what we'll be talking about around the table in the plenary sessions is less important than what's taking place quietly in my rooms in the Palais...