Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under the surface of two oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. Among the special equipment they used, the most important item was an underwater camera designed by Marine Explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau, now made by Nikon and sold under the name Nikonos. It is the first camera sealed to function under water without special waterproof housing...
Mixers serve the undeniably important function of shooting down each year's bumper crop of high school valedictorians and star quarterbacks. It teaches them conversational facility. ("Oh, you're from Fulton, Missouri? I had a cousin who drove through there once. He didn't like it.") It impresses on them the need for physical training. It makes them glad to study. It forces them to appreciate Cliffies for what they are--nearby...
...other issue growing out of the Dow incident was that you wished Harvard to close its doors to Army, Navy, and CIA recruiters. That is not the function of Harvard. Its mission is to present to you the choices available or to give to you enough information (total in scope) out of the cultural context of mankind so as to make enlightened action possible. Then it is up to you to choose your course of action toward recruiters...
...studies of interest to the Institute, the associates will work with the faculty and undergraduate groups who are concerned with their particular fields. John G. Wofford, Associate Director of the Institute, emphasized the "ad hoc" nature of the plan and commented that "no single decision as to their function has been made yet. Their affiliation to the Institute will be of a very flexible nature," he said. Gardner added that the initiative for the experts to appear before students will have to come from the undergraduates themselves...
...unorthodox, kind of small letter 'c' christian--or Judeo-Christian--and officially being a Unitarian, it's not easy to answer simply 'yes' or 'no' to whether I believe in a Supreme Being. I tried to discuss something like a Supreme Being that is imminent rather than transcendent: a function or aspect of human experience. I could have quoted Hindu doctrine to make it fit, but I chose to write it in my own words. I wrote about the highest moments of perception and truth and reality, and the power of love, communion, and creativity...