Word: functioning
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Many black and Hispanic leaders read in the looting a message to the nation. Says Educator Kenneth Clark: "We have reduced the people of the ghetto to the point where they function on the level of predatory animals." Adds U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young: "If you turn the lights out, folks will steal. They'll do that especially if they're hungry." That went a bit far-even in the ghetto, few Americans do not have enough...
...Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr.: "With out a sense of privacy, the Bill of Rights guarantees cease to function...
Institutional racism has to do with the structure and function of our society rather than with the attitudes of individuals. Institutional racism consists of those practices and procedures in our community that harm racial minorities whether or not intended. Indeed, institutional racism could be the unintended outcome of behavior thought to be helpful. Institutional racism, therefore, has to do with effects or consequences rather than intentions. Racial minorities determine whether or not behavior is racist in terms of its negative effect. Racial majorities determine whether or not behavior is racist in terms of its positive intent. Behavior with a positive...
Trilling's failure to go beneath the surface level of the phenomena she describes seems to come in large part from her conviction that the function of the social commentator is primarily as a moral guide. The critic, she argues, should insure that we do not lose sight of "the continuing dynamics of culture," that we will remember that "codes for the guidance of our moral lives are constantly being proposed for us by the culture even where the social standards which are being invoked seem most precisely to prohibit recourse to moral criteria." What she is saying, through...
Died. Dr. Robert Franklin Pitts, 68, physiologist who pioneered research in kidney function and disease; of a heart attack; in Live Oak, Fla. While chairman of Cornell University's physiology department, Pitts conducted studies that led to new medical routines of therapy and an understanding of diuretic drugs...