Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best foundations are acutely conscious of their public image and obligations, and sensitive to the need for periodic introspection if they are to preserve their function as the implement of vital change. Philanthropic institutions can degenerate into bureaucracies, stiff with habit and overloaded with deadwood; it is difficult, for instance, to fire a philanthropist for backing a poor horse. Soon after taking over the presidency of the Ford Foundation in 1966, McGeorge Bundy declared his conviction that periodic personnel turnover at the disbursement level was probably a good foundation practice...
Kasperak rallied through most of the week. But then he suffered a serious setback. Because of his poor liver function, an excess of bilirubin (a by-product of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in blood) began to build up in his system, and doctors scheduled another massive transfusion to remove impurities from his blood. Through it all, the one organ that consistently worked best was his acquired heart...
...orchestra and its instruments are unchanged. The auditoriums he performs in are virtually the size and shape they always were. Through an epoch of transformations that have touched nearly every human activity, the conductor would seem to be one person who has clung to an accustomed role and function...
...resolution reads in part: "Examinations should be regarded as educational experiences, not simply as disciplinary exercises or mechanisms for grading. The educational function of the examination is best served if the student has an opportunity to reconsider and reevaluate his own performance in light of his instructor's evaluation...
Structurally, the last hour resolves a conflict, but unfortunately not the conflict set-up in the first hour; The Graduate splits in two with scant transition, ultimately cancelling itself out. Nichols effects the break and abandons his premise by destroying the character of Elaine, reducing her to mere plot function. Elaine rejects Benjamin when her mother describes him as a calculating rapist, then promptly changes her mind when Benjamin denies the charges. Seriously questioning neither version of the affair (and our knowledge of Mrs. Robinson makes hard to imagine Elaine believing her mother in the first place), Elaine's amazing...