Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest function of a government is to educate the people. A monarchy does not do this; it is the lazy man's way out. With the ruler's death, comes confusion...
...called to the Premiership by King Christian X. Meanwhile the electoral machinery of the Landsthing (Upper House) was not in motion, last week, since the Senators are elected only once in four years (for a term of eight years) by an elaborate system of electoral boards not scheduled to function again until 1928. The Danish nobility, of whom no more are created, have no ipso facto place in the Landsthing, but, on the other hand have the peculiar privilege of passing on their titles to all their sons and daughters, so that the extinction of a Danish noble house...
...will become the function of the National Student Federation, to explore these fields and many others, and to make them fruitful. You cannot create an ideal college just by taking thought, and by giving rein to your imagination. We live in America, in the Twentieth century...
...runs. "Classical" is identified with "barbarism" "romantic" with "cultures." And after this trade at which all dead and lifeless classicists must achiever in their tombs he concludes be nightly. "The old, old controversy between classical and romantic objective and subjective is not so much destroyed as transcended. The function of literature is not to multiply the bad examples of old but to help save the world...
...trend is broken now, and we are returning to the older dramatic ideals. The looseness of form and physical structure of the modern plays, the greater range and diversity of subject, and the fantastic staging that has recently been the vogue, all point to a renaissance of the primary function of the drama...