Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wriston's chief target is Government interference in the economy, which he believes has ruined or distorted every industry it has touched. Says he: "Shortages become a crisis when Government intervenes to frustrate the ability of the free market to function...
...were completed successfully despite wide coverage-and somewhat gratuitously reminding the court of the press's role in uncovering the Watergate scandal-the brief pointed out that there is "a special risk" in limiting court reporting because gag orders amount to "entering restraints on the very institution whose function is to expose governmental wrongdoing in all branches of government, including the judiciary...
...full bloom of conformity," or "this banal originality." Pasolini owed his fame as a poet to the fact that he appeared on the Italian literary stage at a time when there were few other performers. He became a success because he managed to write poetry that filled a political function: a poetry the Left could use as cultural propaganda. Now, after his murder, the books of "our martyred comrade" are selling fast...
...primary work: writing books," she wrote to her 15,000 subscribers. "The state of today's culture is so low that I do not care to spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted by a quotation from Nietzsche: 'It is not my function to be a flyswatter.' " -British Actor-Director Richard Attenborough was "thrilled beyond measure" when he received from No. 10 Downing Street a letter offering him a trusteeship in London's prestigious Tate Gallery. So thrilled, he later remembered, that he neglected to open a second letter from the same address...
...papers, you wonder how he finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning." Crichton has a theory about the use of obfuscating medical language. In explaining it, however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon is highly contagious: "Medical obscurity may now serve an infra-group recognition function, rather like a secret fraternal handshake. In any event it is a game, and everybody plays it. Indeed, I suspect one refuses to play at one's professional peril...