Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonard Feeney, S. J., for four years instructor and spiritual director at the Center, was also deprived of the right "to perform any priestly function, including preaching and teaching of religion" under the Archbishop's decree...
Center Adds New Function...
Unimpressed, the committee voted to put the Mindszenty case on the agenda. The Assembly, not continually hamstrung by veto,* was thus free to fulfill what was perhaps its most important function-to act as the voice of the world's conscience...
...twelve years, sometimes collaborating with his writer wife, Verna Arvey ("she takes over where I fail to function"), he has toiled away on the composition of seven operas. A slight, sloe-eyed man whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn...
...successive Sundays, Frenchmen voted on candidates for their local Conseils Généraux, which vaguely resemble U.S. state legislatures in function. The results analyzed this week showed that the Communists still had nearly 25% of the popular vote. But without losing much numerical strength in the electorate, Reds faced a worsened position in French politics. Whenever a Communist had a chance of getting elected, all other parties tended to combine against him. In the last (1945) cantonal elections, Communists got 184 seats; this time, anti-Red coalitions held Communist victories to 37. The Gaullists...