Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsive to the will of the people and empowered under the Constitution to determine the wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts of Congress unconstitutional. That, said Felix Frankfurter, ad-libbing in his opinion, was not much to boast about-especially since a good many...
...corralled a dazzling collection of theological big-leaguers, including Paul Tillich, Richard R. Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, Georges Florovsky, Douglas Horton, George A. Buttrick, George H. Williams. Memorial Church, once sparsely attended, now teems with students who come Sundays to hear Presbyterian Buttrick fulfill his official function as Preacher to the University. Bartley's quarrel with all this: religion in a university should not subordinate thinking to commitment or individual, disciplined analysis to "Big Answers...
Annapolisman Rickover denounced progressive education, which "makes its pernicious influence felt in the steady deterioration of the secondary school curricula, and overlong elementary schooling." His remedy: "Turn back to the home what is properly the function of the home, and permit the public schools to concentrate on what is properly their function-the education of young minds...
Bikes & Business. MIDEC's main function, says Rykens, will be to bring together Arab businessmen with capital to invest and Western outfits with the necessary know-how who will be willing to accept a minority interest. Tentatively. Rykens has set a ceiling of 40% for Western financial participation. MIDEC will concentrate initially on small industrial enterprises such as paper mills, breweries, fertilizer, bicycle, textile and chemical plants. However much Arabs distrust the West, Rykens thinks they still respect Western technological ability enough to make the plan work...
...Abner, but I insist that a newspaper shall print a goodly amount of information. In the long run, [editors] will discover that they cannot compete with TV in the variety field, and therefore that the future lies in the information area. Too many of them have abdicated this function to the news weeklies and to the silver-screen, gold-plated commentators. They had better move quickly to regain their news standing." Other Markel criticisms: ¶ "Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information is being worn thin. There is too little said about the obligations of the press...