Word: functions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "Freedom and Famine." A searching examination of India's attempt to function as a democracy, and how difficult that can be in places like the state of Bihar, ridden with drought and disease...
...that his country would not suddenly change its trade pattern and would remain solidly moored in the Communist economic community. He also declared that the party would use its influence to discourage anti-Socialist and anti-Soviet broadcasts and articles, and that he would require all political associations to function within the party-dominated National Front. All these, however, were minor concessions -the price of preserving Czechoslovakia's cherished new society...
...more insist that natural law must be constantly reinterpreted in light of man's expanding knowledge. Thus, some thinkers contend that the Pope's rejection of birth control because it interferes with procreation is based on a static and incomplete understanding of sexuality as a merely biological function. A complete natural-law theory of intercourse should include its total significance for man within marriage. To most modern couples, it is more important as an expression of love than as a method of procreating children...
...Britain's "good and faithful" civil servants as so many goose eggs in bowler hats. To point up last week's summit meeting in Cierna, the Economist pictured Russia's Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia's Dubček exchanging chitchat while clapping perfunctorily at a public function. This week's cover on birth control is a portrait of Pope Paul sitting in lonely majesty against a black background. The caption: "What world...
...Supreme Court has also successfully performed its second function, that of "governing effectively," said McCloskey, for "despite all the Court tried to do and has dared to do, the Court still has as strong prestige as ever...