Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership. Silber should step down, in order to let someone who can work more closely with faculty and students take over. If he continues to refuse to resign, the board of trustees should take it upon themselves to remove him from office. The university cannot continue to function normally, much less to go through a severe economic crisis, in the pervasive atmosphere of distrust that now exists at Boston University...
...papers today also pridefully showed photographs of the U.S. ambassador at some function with government officials...
...early in 1974 I resumed my position as a resident tutor at the cooperative house on Sacramento Street. Like all returning field-workers who have been through a painful process of adaptation to another society, I suffered several weeks of reverse culture shock. I no longer seemed able to function properly in my own culture. For a short while, my expectations of what people were going to do next and of what they expected of me were subtly out of joint. My colleagues seemed foreign to me, and I ventured to Harvard Square with trepidation. One place only seemed comfortable...
...Kissinger remains perpetually sensitive to the problems of his effectiveness. Privately, he has said he will resign if he becomes so much of an issue during the campaign that he cannot function. He stays on because he feels that he is the man holding American foreign policy together, especially in the Middle East...
...Lean, adapting his own novel, is at heart a puzzlemaker, not a picturemaker. So all that nice scenery whizzes wastefully by outside the windows, while he concentrates his attention on the fancy private car that has been hooked on the train. It contains a lot of characters whose chief function is to be mysteriously bumped off at metronomic inter vals, leading to the natural conclusion that one of the dwindling number of sur vivors must be a murderer. Among them are the Governor of the unnamed state they are traversing, his lady, a lawman and his prisoner Charles Bronson...