Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand years to make civilization stable; war shows the frailty of their wisdom. War is thus the great evil, and the great revealer of flaws; it is the great darkness when man's artificial light goes out; it is the ruthless exposer of shame. Now it is the function of religion to solve the 'problem of evil' for men none of whom escape evil. Since war is the great evil, it is the ultimate task of religion; unless religion can meet it, it is no good. It has been the power of Christianity that it has sought...
...necessary quorum. That this absurd burlesque of American government was soon righted with a warrant for their arrest in no way diminishes the Axis delight and Allied dismay it must have inspired. The United States, home of democracy, fighting a war in which democracy struggles to survive, can't function because of a small minority group...
...Drucker arrives at no cut & dried scheme for reordering American civilization. He does call for a revision of the forms of government to take cognizance of the fact of life in an industrial society, acceptance of the still unrecognized status and function of individuals in such a world. His thesis does not lend itself to easy paraphrase. It is rather a provocative form of thinking about the problem of preserving individual freedom in a fast-regimenting world...
...result, the newly selected advanced course cadets will function as sergeants only during the first semester of their third year, and will assume command of the regiment as commissioned cadet officers in the second half of the third year, giving them three semesters in which to bark commands...
...function of this office to proselyte for any branch of the service; but anyone planning to make up his mind had better do so quickly. It takes time to enlist men, and an application filed shortly before December 1 may not get through the machinery in time for enlistment on that date...