Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fuzzy Function. The greatest growth has been in public two-year community colleges, but the function of these well-meaning institutions is fuzzy at best. "There are too many people in the world of the 1970s already," says Bird, "and we do not know where to put newcomers. The neatest way to get rid of a superfluous 18-year-old is to amuse him all day long at a community college while his family feeds and houses him. This is not only cheaper than a residential college but cheaper than supporting him on welfare, a make-work job, in prison...
Prophecying doom without redemption, or destruction without renewal, is a demonic, not a prophetic, function. Yet there are some who propose policies that would save us from the crisis we face, not by redeeming or renewing the earth, but by cutting ourselves off from those who are hungry, by abrogating every traditionally binding ethical principle...
...large as the entire State Department, has done nothing else quite so effectively as oppose a reorganization plan drafted by the prestigious Stanton Commission. The commission logically believes that the cold war, for which the USIA was formed, is over and that most of the agency's function should now be absorbed by the State Department...
Shelley Anderson '77, acting chairman of the new organization told the CHUL meeting: "Our function is to act as a catalyst to bring black women on Harvard University's campus together for academic, cultural, political and social purposes...
Students on the committee said that it ceased in function nearly two weeks ago because the administration reneged on a promise to provide it with budget information necessary to its deliberations...