Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expose of James Joyce [Feb. 13] has been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...
...initial decision are often produced in committee. The 26-man Faculty Council, roughly comparable in function to Harvard's Corporation, rules on all matters of educational policy. Composed of an elected Chairman, the President and Vice-Presidents of the Institute, the Deans of M.I.T.'s five schools, and other key faculty members, the Council forms an effiective link between the individual professors and the administrative officers...
Sloane emphasized that the committee will not be able to function properly unless it receives the support of the student body. He called upon every student with complaints against business practices or misleading advertising to report them to the committee in writing at the Council office in P.B.H...
...attempting indirectly to enforce the Court's decision, Congress would be trying to fulfill a function for which it is eminently unsuited. A history of painful episodes indicates that Congress is not the arena in which to settle matters of race relations. The Powell Amendment is an attempt to make the Congress the arbiter of inter-racial antagonisms in the South--a role it cannot play...
...position under the Queen gives him the final say in matters of criminal life or death. Himself once an ardent abolitionist, Lloyd-George lowered his eyes like a man condemned, as he outlined the government's position. "In taking life," he said, "the state performs its most solemn function . . . There can be no Home Secretary who would not be thankful to be relieved of this terrible burden. [But] if there is reason to think that without capital punishment there might be more murder, then capital punishment should be retained." In this negative way was the government's case...