Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the E.T.S. examiners insist that their tests do serve a valid academic function. Since grading standards vary enormously among the nation's 24,000 secondary schools, the S.A.T.s at the very least provide admissions officers with a national common denominator in helping judge the thousands of applications they get every year. A high scorer from a small, little-known school is thus given greater consideration than he might have received from his class record alone. By the same token, the underachiever -the bright youth with poor high school grades-is often spotlighted by the tests, given...
...conclusion that great films come instinctively to their makers, that thematic depth is rarely the product of an analytical intellect working deliberately toward that end behind the camera. The elements in Bonnie and Clyde, on the other hand, have been chosen with some care; each shot has a function largely conceived at a planning stage, and Arthur Penn can give us a reason for any given angle, lens, or shadow. Following in the Ford tradition ("When the fact becomes legend, print the legend"--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Bonnie and Clyde succeeds magnificently as American mythology, an intelligent treatment...
...technique that might be called coercive noninterference. When the prewar mayor of Nablus (pop. 44,000) announced that he would resign rather than front for the Jews, the occupation authorities simply informed him that no one would be appointed to replace him; since the local government could not function without a mayor, that meant that it would undoubtedly collapse, throwing the town into chaos. The mayor stayed. When Arab teachers throughout the West Bank called a general strike, the Israelis made no attempt to stop them. It was perfectly all right with Israel, the teachers were told, if Arab children...
Last week, in a bid for broad party support and accord with the Republicans' Eastern Establishment, Nixon turned up at a Manhattan fundraising dinner that amassed some $300,000 for New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits-the first official New York G.O.P. function that Nixon has attended since moving there four years ago from California. While Rockefeller and New York Mayor John Lindsay listened with fixed smiles, Nixon warmly endorsed Javits for re-election next year. Ironically, the potentially most powerful bloc in the G.O.P. is musclebound. Twenty-four of the nation's 26 Republican Governors...
...Jews. He is a patsy for just about any call for a benefit performance or public function-a dinner for an old friend, a White House invitation, a sports-award shindig. Sometimes, when a benefit fails to raise its quota, Bob will write a personal check for the difference. Though he gets $20,000 to $25,000 for a college date, he always turns the check back to the college scholarship fund...