Word: defunction
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...last time Harvard abolished a department was four decades ago, when the Department of Geography went defunct. If the University wants to resume this practice, it had better explain...
...Phil's extreme displeasure) on Donahue's show two weeks ago, he was being the pedal-to-the- metal performance artist one expects. And his unedited riffing can often be, as charged, disgusting: his jokes 11 years ago about his wife's miscarriage were inexcusable, his now defunct TV show's low-rent T&A spectacle a depressing glimpse into a New Jersey heart of darkness...
...Beverly Hillbillies" could have been mildly amusing, or even sharply satirical. It could have departed from its tired premise and struck out on new ground. It didn't. After all, if Hollywood had wanted original thought, what would have justified drudging up this innocuous defunct Sixties TV sitcom anyway...
...Rose '94 and Perspective PresidentJesse M. Furman '94, who organized the revival ofthe defunct Dunster Students for Free Expression,said students are still scared to voice theiropinions...
...wasn't a complete computer illiterate. Periodically, someone would force me to learn Basic (remember Basic?) again on the mendacious promise that it would someday prove useful. So I learned it dutifully, going so far as to pass the now-defunct technical portion of the QRR, but I never saw the greater utility of being able to program cascading rows of asterixes down the screen...