Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their attempt to cover a wide range of interest, the editors have not gone off the deep end. Rightly understanding that their proper function is first of all as a student magazine, they have placed as the two lead articles a report on the recent Chicago conference which culminated in the decision to form a National Union of Students, as well as an outline of the methods and ideals of the British National Union of Students...
...Giuseppe Saragat, sometimes called the Leon Blum of Italy, and Nenni's bitterest enemy. He had come to secede. In a strong, clear voice he deplored "this moment of grief." He said: "Our party has fallen into the hands of men who no longer believe in its historical function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which can be their faithful instrument...
...Europe's once great power made it no longer feasible to look to that continent as the guardian of a civilization called European, or Western; the U.S. had become the heir of Athens and Rome simply because it was the only nation able to carry out the function of a trustee. In a trustee, good will and generosity are not enough; he must also exercise with requisite vigor the authority of his office...
...Information and Education Program performed its most valuable function in keeping the Army of the United States a citizen-army. Now that Berlin and Tokio have been conquered, it is required more than ever to teach an ever-younger American soldier why he is needed for occupation duty, what he can do in the interests of world peace, and how he can return to his community to become an informed and useful citizen. In an Army still fumbling with the recommendations of the Doolittle Board and with reformation of the courts-martial system, I & E stands out as a happy...
Laugh, Clown, Laugh. "It is ... the particular function of comedy to destroy the more trifling dignities of this earth: quality varies with the shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...