Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School's newest lecturer, Conservative Spokesman William F. Buckley Jr., 42. Though urbanity flowed like sarsaparilla, Buckley never did get around to talking about the cities in his first class. Instead, he led his enraptured students through a 90-minute recitative of conservative epigrams, to wit: "The main function of the state-perhaps the only one-is the maintenance of a stable currency...
...prime function of Rooks' home movie is for Rooks himself, as bitter nostalgia for a less-than-sweet 13 years, and a document-reminder of a life-style by necessity gone forever. Chappaqua, however, transcends personal therapy, Rooks keeping the audience in mind and treating his own life with little self-indulgence. As a personal statement, Chappaqua appears uncompromisingly honest, by virtue of the rigorous structuring of the film, the asceticism of the visual effects (compared, say, to Corman's The Trip), and Rooks' own sympathetic and attractive personality...
Kirk said that Columbia regards campus recruitment "as a university function subject to university discipline," although Columbia "does not condone illegal activity by any of its members on or off campus...
...mush surrounded by a tough casing, running through the hollow centers of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs. Inside the cord are nerve cells and main nerve tracts like a telephone installer's spaghetti wire. Although smaller nerves in the extremities may regenerate after injury and partial restoration of function is possible if the cord is not completely severed, there is virtually no precedent of rejoining and restoring function to a completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent success: when a cord is severed it retracts, thus becoming shorter...
...Obviously the University is training people to function in the outside world. It wouldn't be good if it did not. But it is also providing a small piece of detached space where business and government is studied. It has to do both things--that's why it"s such a curious place...