Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong with this country," says Rudolph Sommerlatt, 64, who recovered control of his family's industrial-insulation business on the day economic union took effect. "Just give the middle class a chance. We have a lot to make up for after 40 years of socialism when we could not function. We don't have anything against good, healthy competition. We'll make...
That is the issue that lies behind the hullabaloo over "multiculturalism" and "political correctness," the attack on the "Eurocentric" curriculum and the rise of the notion that history and literature should be taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem. Group separatism crystallizes the differences, magnifies tensions, intensifies hostilities. Europe -- the unique source of the liberating ideas of democracy, civil liberties and human rights -- is portrayed as the root of all evil, and non-European cultures, their own many crimes deleted, are presented as the means of redemption...
...serious flaws and < injustices -- has shown an unprecedented ability to correct itself. Certainly we must become more aware of other cultures and their contributions. But the top priority should be to equip children for life in the modern world, to preserve and expand the unity America needs to function better, for the sake of all, and to avoid the destructive effects of intellectual tribalism...
...should not teach a kind of uniform identity or a commonality of American culture. So much of American history really does involve struggle and conflict and different groups trying to come to terms with one another. I think it tells us that the melting pot has not served the function of melting people into a kind of common identity so much as the fact that people still retain their own senses of identity. It's easy for teachers to look for easily teachable generalizations for students. But what history tells us more than anything else is how complex our experiences...
...when artificial insemination with donor semen was introduced, many ethicists said it separated procreation from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government...