Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BICKEL: I take the contrary view. I think the President is not indictable before impeachment because he's indispensable. His personal continuity and function in office are indispensable to the existence of the State. I think in the Vice President's case it's not that he's indispensable, it is that he is unavoidable...
KURLAND: You have two functions here. One is the function of determining whether the man should continue to hold office; the other is whether he should be subject to conviction for a crime. I think that the House could very possibly decide that a man is disqualified from office because of crimes that he had committed prior to acceding to that office and that remained undiscovered at the time of his election...
Walzer told the Emerson Hall gathering that the new group's function should be to "maintain a clear commitment to radical politics in the United States and at the same time address itself to immediate, political issues...
...Adaptation. Scrupulous efforts were made to transfer the plays to film intact. "My function is to see that there is not an adaptation," says Edward Albee, credited as "screenwriter" for his own A Delicate Balance. "I'm the screen non-writer." Nevertheless, directors and actors all insist that they have produced not static "filmed plays" but new cinematic interpretations. "A three-dimensional object seen from different vantage points" is the way Peter Hall describes Pinter's The Homecoming in its A.F.T. incarnation. "We've not so much opened up the play as closed in on details...
...library, which fulfills the important function of serving the Quad residents by avoiding long walks down to Lamont or Widener -- and now the Science Center -- has always had reserve books of the most important science courses at the University. This year it doesn't. Neither does it have a good reference section in Biology, chemistry, Physics or any of the other sciences...