Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great Conservative tradition. True Conservatism was shouldered out of the way by moneyed interests and cramped into a narrow and cranky orthodoxy that was draped in the finery of enduring principles. By the end of the twenties, the American Right was showing little understanding of its preserving function. It had no standards, no traditions, no coherence-only a grab bag of fetishes and dogmas...
...course, the satisfaction is muted by the post-arrest process. And not just when the defendant is released the next morning, comes to trial five months later and beats the rap. I mean when the system works as planned and the man ends up in jail. The police function only makes sense when jutted against an intelligent court system and a corrections apparatus that gives a leg up to those criminals who can still get their minds together to make what society calls an honest living. All three components of law enforcement are defective. But my strong impression is that...
...group, after deciding that its primary function was as an advisory committee to the academic community, posed the question quite simply to Dunlop: "If we were to come up with a plan that was generally agreeable among the student body, would the plan be instituted by the University...
...last weekend at a dinner in Holvoke Center and watched the guests of honor pass a joint under his nose. It seems unnecessary when there has been no evidence to prove that marijuana is as debilitating as alcohol, without which this University and most of American society could not function...
...living in a violent city, one soon learns otherwise; the violence only highlights the isolation of each family from its neighbors and environs. The Carol Newquists are the urban John Does-even their ethnic background is eclectically modeled. Thus, each member must strive to serve a separate, useful social function, and is then thrown back into the family to secure personal happiness. The son who served his country in Korea and Vietnam is relieved of this struggle when he is killed at 95th and Amsterdam before the film begins. The younger son attends college while drooling like a moron...