Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those "ill-trained, ill-paid guards who are so concerned with security that treatment staffs can barely function," I object to your implication that the custodial function is antithetic to the good cause of social rehabilitation. Most criminal psychologists agree that a "sense of being punished" is a necessary precedent to true rehabilitation. In view of the trend to establish "country club" prisons, the only way the felon can gain a sense of punishment is by frequent sight of uniformed "keepers." Far from opposing or inhibiting rehabilitation, the custodial staffs are more responsible for eventual rehabilitation than any number...
...Contextures mainly had to do with fierce tensions and dissonances in which various sections of the orchestra played frenetically against each other. "I suppose this is a belligerent work," says Kraft. "But that's where the social comment comes in: we're all different, but somehow we function together...
SEVERAL less-than-affirmative ideas can be advanced. The monolith is a representation of an extraterrestrial force which keeps mankind (and finally Bowman) under observation, and manipulates it at will. Man's progress is not of his own making, but a function of the monolith--man cannot predict, therefore, the ensuing stages of his own evolution. That the initiation of man into higher stages of development involves murder casts ambiguity as to the nature of the monolith force. In its statement that man cannot control his destiny, 2001 is anti-humanistic--this also in the concept that what we consider...
Dean Ford said Wednesday that Harvard's Council of Deans was maintaining a policy that television coverage should be based on its advancing Harvard's "educational function...
...mere fact that WGBH wanted to cover a demonstration doesn't mean we'll say 'yes,' if we don't think it has anything to do with Harvard's educational function," Ford said...