Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More broadly, Griffith says that the function of the newsman should not be to purvey final answers and finished philosophy: "He is neither defender of any faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...
...matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There is one adolescent of each gender whose prime function is to be cute and awkward about sexual awakening; a precocious kid brother who always understands more than people think he does about what's "going down"; a good-natured father who is either baffled or angry about his brood, but not much good at problem solving. Mom, of course...
...book is that it lacks the total perception or awareness needed for such a work. The one-sided view is accompanied by few suggestions for improvement or action. DeCrow says that her book is not a summary of laws on women. That is unfortunate, for Sexist Justice would function better as a strictly informational work than as a "feminist interpretation" which negates human dignities. Nonetheless this is a valuable book, if only because legal injustices are still painfully real to women in this country. As Abigail Adams once told John...
...does not seem to think that his own life as a performer is all that interesting. This may not seem a lot to ask, but one of the consequences of a pervasive division of labor is that artists tend to see themselves as a caste apart, performing a specific function as society's Entertainers and Interpreters. And since these people are constantly told to draw material from their own "real" lives, it is only logical that we should be entertained by commentaries on the traumas of working on the road, on the sociology of backstage life, the horrible, wrenching, self...
...drunk was a homage of mourning to his friend Hughie, the hotel's night clerk, who has just died. Hughie had per formed the almost ecclesiastical function of believing in Erie's shabby bravado, his tales of bedding girls from the Follies and beating the cards and dice, of winning on the "bangtails" at the track and the time in New Orleans he lit a cigar with a C-note. Hughie was his audience, the receptacle of the deceits that keep Erie alive. Charley (Peter Maloney), the new clerk, listens in the dim lobby with a sort...