Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...quite the international event that the Soviet press makes it out to be, the deification clearly fills a deep domestic political-and psychological-need. "Please remember, for us Lenin is an icon," declared a ranking Soviet official. The icon, moreover, serves an up-to-the-minute function. In a year scarred by serious economic shortcomings and rumors of rifts at the top, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin have invoked Lenin's ideas to enhance their collective leadership and his image to associate themselves with the heroic struggles of the past. By emphasizing their identity with Lenin...
...Jankow also asserts that "present Army policy states that even when a dog has contracted this disease it is perfectly all right to work him until he drops dead or becomes too ill to function (in which case he will be destroyed...
Recently, graduate students, undergraduate students, officers, and faculty of Harvard University formed the Graduate Student Homophile Association. The primary aim of GSHA is to gain acceptance of homosexuals by society as positively valued Individuals. In this respect, GSHA functions in several capacities. First, GSHA is attempting to promote an understanding of the homosexual and of homosexuality by sponsoring educational activities, such as lectures, research, discussions, and dialog with groups in the academic and local communities, which are designed to change and correct existing attitudes toward homosexuality. GSHA has initially been involved in speaking engagements at universities and churches. The response...
...Moondance is a more mature album. Though there are no virtuoso instrumentals, the music is much stronger. Morrison has added another sax, piano, organ and congo drum-practically a small orchestra. But the music itself is not the vital part of Moondance. Its function is to provide a background for Morrison, as The Band did for Dylan. And this is superbly done; the instrumentalists almost, but never quite drop out of sight...
...even to have a voice at any of the mass rallies. The BAM spokesmen explained that the white student help was essential and "greatly appreciated." "The Coalition has done a lot of busy work for us" with mimeographing and food supplies, BAM explained; the Coalition work "allowed us to function in planning and negotiation; we have been made more effective and functional." This strictly separate type of working arrangement between whites and blacks was maintained throughout the strike: its tactical success provided powerful and lasting support for the eleven BAM demands...