Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this business are acute. I defy any normal human being to live through an opening night on Broadway. It's a life-and-death situation, public exposure of the most profoundly damaging kind?like going to the guillotine. That's why actors are very cooperative people. They cannot function singly...
...after all, Mailer does realize the tremendous discrepancy between the scope of a man's activity and the scope of a woman's in our society. But he attributes this discrepancy to the preeminence of the woman's desire to function as wife and mother over any other life-style she'd ever want...
...member of the Council of Deans and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Radcliffe Dean will be responsible for activities which will remain separate from Harvard including admissions and financial aid, the career counseling office, the Radcliffe Institute, the Schlesinger Library, and the Alumnae Office. However, the function remains vague: "He or she would be expected to take a special interest in initiating and extending educational opportunities for women under that Faculty...
...child's whole early experience of life is dependence on one woman-if the child is a boy, his goal in later life will be to possess such a woman, and if the child is a girl, to identify with such a woman. And that woman's sole function is to love and to feed and to give. It seems that a much healthier way of bringing up children would be to share that responsibility with both men and women in a kind of day care system where the children would have continual attention and affection from different sources...
...becomes more clear in the structure of its protector, the CRR. While the CRR judged only students, nevertheless students were allowed only one-third of the votes on the Committee. Nor did they have any say in the determination of this ratio. Finally, the Committee was set up to function, and has functioned, even if it had no student representation at all. So the recent referenda of all the Houses, in which the students rejected the CRR's election procedures and refused to send representatives to it, will not prevent the CRR from continuing to function in its actual capacity...