Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illuminate the characters but do not slow down the speed with which the picture races to its climax. Nor does Wyler ever stop to interject some sort of vague message or a commentary on such topics as police corruption. There is a statement about that, but it has its function in the story. And although the film does not strain for a message, it still has a point: a man's greatest dignity comes from his devotion to his family. THOMAS K. SCHWABACHER
...purely altruistic activities of Frank Walsh and the Soviet team clearly fall under the label of "amateurism," especially since Walsh will give the proceeds of the tour to the Hall of Fame. In opposing the tour, therefore, the A.A.U. has surpassed its legitimate authority. Its true function is to ensure that only true amateurs compete in amateur athletics. Once the Russians have complied with this condition, the A.A.U. no longer has any place in the matter, and should not hamper their tour. Ira D. Benson...
...coordination, liaison and committee work at many levels. The central idea is to save the man at the top from the near-impossible task of having to choose between two or more recommendations, each bearing the prejudices of a particular field of study, of interest or of bureaucratic function. Inevitably, the new system brought a new and more important status to the Cabinet meeting. Served by a secretary (a Bostonian named Max Raab) who prepares an agenda for each meeting, circulates position papers in advance, briefs the presiding officer and follows up on decisions, the Eisenhower Cabinet meeting has become...
...York Guild of Catholic lawyers, the Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, attacked the "obsessive liberalism" of the present day-"that frightened and frantic pursuit of freedom alone and at all costs." Obsessive liberalism, he said, "not only seeks an excess of freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial-and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority. It has identified social progress only with the expansion...
...Court's role is notably original because it stresses the limitations, constitutional and practical, of the Judicial branch. The Supreme Court, says Jackson, is not a policy-making branch, and its power has been vastly over-estimated by those whose knowledge and experience of the Court's function is limited to the Roosevelt "court packing" controversy. Broad though the Court's discretion may be in times of national emergency, its power is severely limited in the ordinary course of events...