Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the most important world-discoveries. Man's perception, unlike that of the frog-by-itself, is strongly, though perhaps not carefully, shaped by education. The university is entrusted with the vital task of shaping the foundations of that sensibility, a responsibility that must be its prime function...
...contemplation of the truths in poetry is a vital step in a student's growth. The General Education Program in the Humanities was invented for that sort of growth. How else do it? What other function can there be for requiring the study of humanities...
...federal elections. Since Congress can regulate national elections in other ways, the Court's majority reasoned, it also has the authority to set the age of voters. Likewise in state and local elections, four of the five justices held. But Hugo Black demurred on the second issue. "No function is more essential to the separate and independent existence of the states and their governments," Black wrote, "than the power to determine within the limits of the Constitution the qualifications of their own voters." Thus the vote was 5 to 4 against allowing youths to vote in the state...
...build a joint British-American air and radio communications center on the tiny island. The facility will provide support for British and U.S. planes and ships and will be available as a potential alternative to the U.S. communications and satellite-tracking base in northern Ethiopia. Its most important function, however, will be to serve as a counterbalance to the growing Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean...
...followed. Prior to Beethoven, music in general never moved too far from the everyday interests of its patrons, be they commoners or royalty; this was true of a Bach cantata or a Mozart serenade. Beethoven changed that. As the father of musical romanticism, he made music an expressive function of himself. Later composers carried the cult of music for music's sake too far, and divorced "serious" composition from the interests of large audiences. One reason that every year is a Beethoven year, not just 1970, is that no composer since has been able to match the towering combination...