Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent plan to investigate the Korean prisoner-of-war atrocities shows just how frantically he is scraping for subjects. Of course, the public is mad at the brutality of these acts, but an investigation would only serve a flagellant function. For Congress investigates only as an aid in legislation, and legislating against Communist Chinese soldiers would be like passing laws against the weather. The point was best put by the Republican head of the House Judiciary Subcommittee, Kenneth B. Keating, who said of McCarthy's plan: "I do not think Congress should invade areas where its only purpose...
...attacking books and reports, and what few persons he has shot at have been in less glamorous places, like the Government Printing Office. The harder up he has been for material, the more willing he has been to extend his investigations beyond the pale of his committee's Constitutional function...
...European Senate, similar in function to the Senate of the U.S. but appointed by the Parliaments of the six member nations. ¶ A Cabinet with executive powers, headed by a President of the United States of Europe elected by the Senate...
...knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas and scapegoats . . ." ¶ Overspecialization is what worries Hamilton College's (Clinton, N.Y.) Robert Ward McEwen. Specialists tend to get so wrapped up in their own fields that they cannot function effectively as citizens, said Dr. McEwen. "Many people turn to murder mysteries for escape from their specialization. But escape is not enough. The most important danger ... is the myopia the specialist develops . . . The need today is for informed specialists . . . who can see the woods as well as the trees. None...
...seventeen-ness admirably, and High-School Senior Louis Gossett plays him well. There is a fresh, humorous smack to the writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely what makes it over-familiar in terms...