Word: functionings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...religion make a truly practical contribution toward the preservation of democracy against the threat of totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...
...English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this situation one can sense the death-rattle of religious music; already dying, it must have perished unwept when the source that nourished...
Theatres and churches continued to function, 90% of the citizens were said to have returned to their jobs, the puppet Government urged nonresistance. When Germans offered reichsmarks they got what they wanted to buy-at 1.66 kroner (40?) per reichsmark. Nevertheless, with its King in hiding, the city blacked out, food falling short and young men slipping off to the hills every night to join their Army, Oslo finally became resentful. Nazis shot snipers as usual. At least 100 Osloans were executed, many for refusing to chauffeur Germans to the front...
...committee stems from the lately deceased Committee on Educational Placement, and the change in name does much to explain the change in function. The old committee was interested only in obtaining jobs for Harvard men in other educational institutions throughout the country. The members of the new committee, adopting a much more realistic attitude, have recognized the obvious fact that Harvard's relations with other schools must embrace a host of additional problems formerly ignored. In part conceived by the amazingly fecund report of the Committee of Eight, the Committee on Educational Relations will for the first time offer, through...
...minefields were to perform the triple function of locking out from home what was left of the German Navy, locking in further supply ships, and lightening the blockaders' sea-patrol task. By sowing so wide an area, even if sketchily, they would make arduous work for Nazi minesweepers, already working overtime to clear the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Nevertheless, nine more Nazi troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which...