Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor Henry H. Leitner, the only Harvard faculty member working with the committee, said he found out about the program from a student in his Computer Science 51 course. Leitner said he wants to see how the interactive programming can function as a tool in long-distance education...
...stakes are high. Access to the information highway may prove to be less a question of privilege or position than one of the basic ability to function in a democratic society. It may determine how well people are educated, the kind of job they eventually get, how they are retrained if they lose their job, how much access they have to their government and how they will learn about the critical issues affecting them and the country. No less an expert than Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and now president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, feels that...
...matter that director Nicholas Hytner and the crew were, like expert midwives, carefully bringing Bennett's 1991 play to the screen; the creator was still adrift. "I'd started it all by telling the story," he says, "but I felt as if I didn't have a function anymore...
...when he beguiled London and Broadway with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller in the Beyond the Fringe comedy revue, Bennett has proved to be the surprise marathoner of that dazzling quartet. In his plays (A Question of Attribution, The Wind in the Willows), film scripts (A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears), TV dramas (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads) and frequent pieces in the London Review of Books, one can hear the thin voice of the last country parson. That's Bennett at 60-comic laureate of the cramped, considerate English temperament...
...asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...