Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know-nothingism of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Clearly, the political university must be viewed with grave misgivings. Writing in The Public Interest, Robert A. Nisbet, a sociologist at the University of California, states the problem: "The university is the institution that is, by its delicate balance of function, authority and liberty, and its normal absence of power, the least able of all institutions to withstand the fury of revolutionary force and violence...
...really relevant questions to ask are: (1) why does the Federal Government support completely such a large laboratory whose only function is to carry out research at the frontiers of knowledge without any expectation of military or technical application, and (2) why is it located in Cambridge...
...educate himself. You can win a Nobel prize and still not be an intellectual." Historian Richard Hofstadter describes the intellectual as a man who lives for ideas, while the professional man lives off ideas. Another historian, Christopher Lasch, calls him "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns. No mere expert or operator, the true intellectual aims for synthesis, moral vision, a grand design...
...members of The Bead Game all have a highly developed instinct for this sort of rock-kineticism. The drummer, Jimmy Hodder, always maintains a sharp edge to his drumming, which is in part a function of the extreme, pungent clarity of every one of his beats, the bassists (Lassie Sachs) consistently keeps up a furious fluttering, Bobby Gass, on organ, punctuates the music with gigantic, sudden, marching chords, constantly accenting with his left hand the lyrical melodies that he plays with his right. The lead-guitarist, John Sheldon, has the kind of rhythmic chording sense that is so conspicuously absent...
...Cornell. There are other reasons too, of course, especially in the case of Berkeley. But, generally, faculty members whose work depends on large federal contracts and grants have lost much of their institutional commitment. They lost their commitment to teaching long ago, again as research became the main function of the university...