Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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junk which has in one era performed nobly in function...
...defender of such moves despite the Reserve Board's qualms, Camp argues that banks should be free to per form "any financial function that does not impair their solvency or liquidity." Fitting their plans to that prescription, bankers insist that because of their customers' changing needs they should have the power to offer more services related to banking. They envision affiliates for such activities as travel services, mutual funds, insurance, equipment leasing, bookkeeping and billing for other firms, and land development...
With individual considerations dispensed of, the remaining abstraction is either idealized or debased. Women are glowingly told that their lack of ordinary creativity is made up for and surpassed by the creativity of bearing a child. Here again They confuse individual personal worth with sexual function and voluntary, conscious achievement with involuntary, passive achievement. At the same time, women as sexual objects are the butt of endless jokes; getting pregnant is getting knocked up. One of the most ingenious of Their numberless stereotypes is the belief that women can be salvaged from piety, ambition, bad temper, nervousness, sadness, fear, worry...
...balance of the immediate expense will have to come from private philanthropy. However, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, said yesterday that "eventually we will have to have an office for recruitment." Formal fund-raising might be a function of this office, Potter said...
...black students. Since it has not yet made a definitive judgment of the course, any comments concerning its final recommendations are premature. Also, because faculty-student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful function and prevents a meaningful exchange of ideas. We fear that such attacks may easily degenerate into meaningless polemics and counter-productive confrontations. Therefore, we find such conduct unacceptable in the pursuit of objective truth. In closing, we wish to express our support of the investigative efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee...