Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steuart Thomsen '76, another of the report's authors, said yesterday he hopes the plan will make the CHUL function more efficiently and increase what he called waning commitment to the organization...
...time when the wedges of agnosticism and technological specialization had just driven those cultures apart. He would probably have been a scientist like his brother Julian had not an eye infection at age 16 permanently and severely impaired his vision. "I am," he wrote, "to a considerable extent a function of defective eyesight." Yet he managed to function with enormous discipline, teaching himself to read Braille?just in case?and slowly poring over books and paintings with a magnifying glass...
...University visiting committee selected by the Board of Overseers and led by a former member of the Federal Reserve Board inspected the Economics Department last December and found it guilty of all the graduate student's charges--so guilty that the committee wondered whether the department can "effectively function in the future...
Skocpol, however, sees this development differently. Sociology, she says, "is a much better place for a radical than economics." She explains that, in the same way that orthodox economists see their job as working within the present economic system to make it function more efficiently, orthodox sociologists traditionally look on themselves as critics of society and proponents of social analysis and policies not currently accepted. Skocpol says the discipline "is much less focused than economics, because it has much less immediate application and involves more than technical manipulations of specialized knowledge, the way neo-classical economics does...
...immediate intolerance does not threaten the radical sociologists, the general problem of working in a traditional university does. Radical sociologists say that Harvard trains its students to function as productive members of capitalist society, that it inculcates a bourgeois ideology, and that the hierarchical relationships in the university and the classroom reflect the hierarchy of capitalist society...