Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Students want to know more about the Council, and should be able to talk with their House representatives about the Council," Freehling stated. He believes that the Council has a definite function in the College, and opposes any referendum on its continued existence...
...pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will evolve up to or something like that...
...study suggests that these additional requirements function as hurdles, tripping up able students whose grades would win them highest honors recommendations in other fields...
...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...
...group dynamics. The only way a person can 'cheat' in a group dynamics situation is to fail to cooperate." ¶ "As the group develops a strong 'we feeling' and gains experience in the group process, the teacher moves more and more out of the function as a leader. The ultimate is when the teacher is no longer the leader...