Word: functioning
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...jury would have to be brought back to court and informed of the discovery. Next day, visibly upset at having to change his instructions to the jurors, he told them the new definition of death as spelled out in the code: "The total and irreversible cessation of brain function." Since brain function had never been tested, the jury became confused...
Levinson has consciously tried to avoid the pitfalls of so many other studies of men in their worlds: a too-narrow focus of research. Psychologists tend to study the ego's changing role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what...
...function of film studies on a university level, says Petric, is to introduce the student to cinematic artists whom the popular moviegoers ignore: experimental filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage, Bruce Bailey, or Hollis Frampton, or foreign artists such as Kenji Mizoguchi or Jean-Luc Godard...
...incident revealed a certain princely naivete, but also showed that Charles shrewdly understands the real source of royal authority in a democracy. "The first function of any monarchy," he has said, "is the human concern for people." Charles inherited this appreciation: the smashing success of the Queen's Silver Jubilee was in part a thank-you note for all the gracious concern she has lavished on her subjects for the past quartercentury. Over the years Prime Ministers have come to cherish their weekly meetings with her, knowing that her assessment of what Britons will tolerate, and what they will...
...spent slow centuries learning how to build societies that would function peaceably and happily with the minimum of punitive sanctions. It took a long time to discover that democratic government was, if not perfect, the system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order...