Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS HEIGHTENED awareness of private neurosis alerts her to the general taint and prompts an interesting argument. In a review of Tennessee Williams's play, The Rose Tatoo, Maxwell Geismar--a Marxist critic--deplores Williams's detachment from the mainstream of American literature. Convinced that literature should be a function of politics, any preoccupation with sheer emotion irks him. The "people," he contends, aren't infected. Nin perceives an undercurrent in American life that sucks in more than a peripheral minority--making neurotics less than special. Williams, she responds, has prophesied a cultural illness...
...didn't go to the theater to learn--learning was strictly a five-day-a-week job. Most Americans do go to the movies just to have fun, to escape from sordid reality, to see their fantasies played out in Technicolor. We've all been taught that the function of film is to entertain. Films, after all, are the product of an "entertainment industry...
...single vote or on a single issue. Successful government--government which can offer both stability and progress--requires the development of a majority committed to reasonably common goals and ready to work out acceptable means to their achievement. Under our system of government, this can and should be the function of a political party...
McClelland said that it was not imperative to the group whether or not they finally decide to become an official chapter member of the NLG because the lack of a parent organization would not affect the HLSG's efforts. He said that the group would still serve a vital function even if the political programs flounder, because it enables the students a chance to get acquainted...
Both complaints are correct, of course, and there is probably nothing to be done about it. Still, the main function of a film festival is to present material that might not otherwise be seen, and most of the films during the festival's first week do not have distributors in this country. For various reasons, it is not hard...