Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even though some of the technique with which they realize her structure isn't dance-academy perfect. The interaction between her, the "outside people"-who are frequently semi-professional dancers-and the Harvard undergraduates of the group cannot reasonably be expected to produce technical perfection. The production is a function of three different worlds and Mallardi sees it as being educational for all three as much as it is an ambitious theatrical production...
...best way he knows--educating Americans. Still, he has carefully guarded against letting his politics color his academic work. "I think it would be wrong to be a propagandist," he explains. "In this case, I think the facts are very eloquent. In any case, I think it's the function of an educator to let people judge for themselves. I don't think you can pre-fabricate a judgment. It will be damaging to your point of view. On the other hand, I don't think one should ever conceal one's opinion. One should try to be honest...
...system he doesn't believe in. "I don't want to give any grades," he says. "The whole system of grades, exams, the idea of the necessity of being tested seems to me to be antithetical to teaching. I don't want to be an examiner--my function is not to weigh, to certify...
...function of community colleges apparently is "fuzzy" to Caroline Bird and your writer of "Case Against College" [April...
...socially leveling process. In such a socially stratified place as Harvard, where each element conforms to its designated position in the hierarchy, it is easy to forget that we are all made of flesh and, of course, blood. Donating blood linked us in a way that no other Harvard function possibly could; the blood of a kitchen worker was worth just as much as that of the most world-famous professor...