Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annoying for a student to see a resident guest or a non-resident professor limit his House appearances to the weekly Faculty luncheon. Logically, of course, the function of intermediary between Faculty and student should belong to resident tutors or House Committees; but the tutors are often too hung up in their own little world of grad school professionalism, while House Committees often limit their duties to maintaining the evening grill. The Gill Committee recently concluded that a senior should not be forced to remain on-campus if he is willing to pay his share of administrative expenses. Ideally, seniors...
...death wish" of the Republican Party is best exemplified by the nomination of Candidate Goldwater in 1964 and probable nomination of Nixon in 1968. Why not nominate the man who has the best chance to win: Rockefeller? Isn't the real function of a political party to put its man into office...
...Because of Latin America's predilection for disaster, Tripp has stockpiled supplies in Panama for quick transit to the area. "We try to act within the first 24 to 72 hours," he says, realizing that the major diplomatic impact-not to mention the humanitarian aspects-of his coordinating function depends on speed in time of crisis. At that, some countries (including Algeria and Outer Mongolia) have chosen to reject American disaster aid out of ideological false pride...
...function of the workshop is to write rock lyrics and music. We shall discuss our own work as well as that being played by heads and rock bands in San Francisco, America, and Great Britain...
Equally inconsistent, Nicholas goes to pains to humanize Mrs. Robinson in the single-take hotel scene where Benjamin insists on talk before sex, then allows her to become a stock villainess who appears in the last hour for five minutes to serve an archetypal function as Dracula's daughter. Sensing the glaring omission of Bancroft, Nichols instructs Simon and Garfunkle to put her name in a song insert, a gratuitous gesture matched only by her one-line appearance at the wedding finale...