Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...RADICAL perspective of the next essay contradicts Trow's argument. Jill Conway, a young historian at the University of Toronto, thinks that the problem is a basic misapprehension of the social function of the university in America. Miss Conway maintains that the young radicals have correctly understood what the political function of the university is in this country. The university exists to create a professional elite, and it is the irresponsibility of that elite in isolating itself from the basic human problems of the oppressed while participating in industrial and defensive research which has caused the crisis of the university...
...rest away, uninterested in building a structured sequence from purely expository material. The staged part of the confrontation differs radically, with focus shifts and architectural space creating distances (parallel layers. schematically) between conflicting groups of people: Mark-watches-militants-watching-police-watching-building. With emphasis on buildings-their function as barrier and blind as well as their pure form-the slaying of the student becomes a certainty-before-the-fact, given the specific illustration of each faction's partial blindness. Degree of sight proportionately indicates degrees of danger in Antonioni's films. Once the tear gas bomb fills the frame...
...character. The attraction of his eye to airplanes could indicate a basic recurring dream, or even knowledge based on earlier experience (i. e. he knows how to fly-an implausible plot point in the film). But the airplane footage also qualifies as pure directorial observation, so the shot function is schizoid and cannot be clearly applied to the story...
...radiation bomb which blinds the prophet and isolates him from all guidance except that of his own prophetic sense. Relying on prescience alone, he walks an unerring path until the crisis, when his prophecies desert him and he must be rescued by his allies. But he has lost his function, for he can no longer trust his prophecies or guide his followers. His terrible purpose fulfilled, he steps free of history and walks to a lonely death in the desert, following the Fremen code that blind men must not burden the tribe...
...justified funding the Cambridge Project by telling Congress that the Project is potentially related to the military function of personnel management. Congressional debate on such interpretations is likely this summer and may affect the Project's funding...