Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Joseph Wood Krutch has outlined one of the main causes of our moral, spiritual and cultural deterioration [TIME, Jan. 19]. The Common Man is becoming all too "common" in both senses of the word. If education does not return to its basic function of "leading out" the Uncommon Man from the mass of anonymous mediocrity, we shall soon be complaining with Ortega y Gasset of the ausenda de los mejores [literally, the absence of the better ones...
...first item of business was a conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell about Charles Erwin Wilson's troubles with Congress (see below). After staff conferences and the morning mail, Ike got around to that other eternal function of high office: handshaking. First, a call from Pillsbury Mills Vice President Bradshaw Mintener & wife, who helped Candidate Ike get a big write-in vote in the Minnesota primary last March 18. Then 29 red-jacketed members of the Palomino Mounted Patrol of Colorado, followed by the boys of the Junior Police Band of Denver. Each one expected, and got, the presidential...
Members of the Administration and over 50 delegates will attend, representing student government, dormitories, classes, and clubs. Cedar Hill's function is to make recommendations to the Student Council on current college problems...
...named to the job a stocky, straight-shouldered man with a strong nose, bleak blue eyes and a disarming smile. George Magoffin Humphrey, 62, is the 55th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. By all readable portents he will be the first in a generation to restore Treasury to its function of high policymaking-by fiscal leadership-not by bureaucratic control of business...
...many of his most energetic ideas center in how best to shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front porch; an airplane is a powerized, high-speed room. "Bucky thinks the individual should be able to exist by just plugging himself into...