Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable decomposition of capitalist society." This has "introduced a new mysticism into the recounting of plain facts. Things happen because capitalism requires them to happen-even, it may be added, to an end not yet reached." Concludes Ashton: "I do not want to see history written as though its function were to simply exhibit the gradualness of inevitability ... I believe . . . that it is from the spontaneous actions and choices of ordinary people that progress . . .springs . . . that the creative achievements of the state have been vastly overrated, and that in the words of Calvin Coolidge, 'where the people...
...country. But having accepted a neutral's responsibility on an international commission, he was presumably bound to judge the case disinterestedly on its merits. To judge it instead on the basis of politic considerations of his own is a betrayal of the neutral's classic function...
...heads of state have a primary, supraconstitutional duty to express the national character so that foreigners and, even more importantly, the state's own citizens will understand it. Seldom has this function been better performed than in Dwight Eisenhower's second State of the Union message-the first since he developed the new, firm grasp on his formidable job (TIME...
Eisenhower and Nixon are engaged in an effort to strengthen the executive branch at the top, to enlarge the presidential influence in the Congress and the bureaucracy. If it works-and it seems to be working-the new function of the Vice President may help to solve a crisis of modern government: the conflict between the unity of national policy represented by the President and the divisiveness and multiplicity represented by Congressmen, specialized administrators arid their attendant pressure groups...
...death in the U.S. becoming a matter of merchandising instead of a holy thing? Plenty of U.S. clergymen think so, as they watch the profitable travesties of the funeral parlor take over more and more of the function of the church. The phenomenon bothered tweedy, pipe-smoking Alvin L. Kershaw when he was a theological student at the University of the South, and bothered him still more when he took over Holy Trinity Episcopal Church at Oxford, Ohio (pop. 6,944). Five years ago, in his second year at Holy Trinity, Rector Kershaw persuaded his vestry to approve the creation...