Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lierop: The first part, about social benefits increasing: that is a direct response to MPLA military and political success in Angola, not a function of Gulf revenues. Ever since the revolution started, the Portuguese have tried to offer the people plums. But the people have said. "It's too late. You've had your chance. From now on, we don't care how many schools you build. The object is how many schools we build, because it's our country. It's our oil. It's our resources...
...level of financial support for graduate students. The entire academic community, and especially the undergraduates, will be affected by the new policies announced by the administration. Graduate students and undergraduates are not two separate and unrelated groups, but are very closely connected in the educational process. For, in their function as teaching fellows, graduate students perform the bulk of the real teaching done within the university both in the classroom and in the Houses...
...fashioned Broadway musical where songs served merely as dialogue and the songs cue was king. Ever since Oklahoma' had hit the scene in the forties, musicals were presumed to be merely souped up dramas. Lyrics had to advance the plot and dances were expected to serve some dramatic function. Cabaret was one of the few musicals of the middle sixties to say that needn't be so. Although Cabaret did retain many vestiges of the traditional musical--it had a plot all right and its characters still sang their thoughts to each other whenever that plot hit a crucial junction...
Many will approach this subject today expecting it to be an arm of Black Militancy. This is to ask this subject to perform a function inappropriate in an academic institution. Such a Department must be staffed by scholars who can get on with the job of pushing back the frontiers of this subject. A faculty of scholars protected by canons of academic freedom should exercise scholarly authority in such a Department. And what about the role of students, who have won the right to help govern Afro-American Studies Departments at Harvard and other universities? Certainly undergraduate students should have...
Unfortunately, we only get snatches of the buildings by looking at these photographs; we are not drawn into the life of the structures, but only given a historical catalogue. Yet, the imagery of his buildings stands on its own, the form handsomely following function; Gropius's devotion to the arts and conviction in the artistic vision has been an overriding yet unproclaimed force in liberal education. It was Gropius's idea that the artist would be at the core of a liberal system of education. He had hoped to make Harvard his proving ground; "It was," says Mrs. Gropius...