Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BGMA has always chosen its bargainers from its own membership, but Harvard's personnel office, which bargains for "management," now has a staff of professionally trained negotiators. Union members come back from bargaining sessions crestfallen after having faced Harvard's representatives. They even tell of one management aide whose function it is to go plowing through a contract defining the exact meaning of each word, in every case to the benefit of the University. So some BGMA officers started looking around for another union that could provide the membership with better negotiators...
...overt support, teach-ins would be poorly attended. So instead the Harvard Communists work as members of other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then when they report back to the non-Communist organization with which they are affiliated, they can serve a coordinating function...
...means to express them. In general, their influence in the University seems to them incommensurate with their numbers (Harvard has more than 900 TF's) and their importance. They hunger to be consulted on the issues that affect them, and they want some kind of recognition of their function as teachers...
Like all other experimental art, the no-longer-underground cinema is sometimes silly or pointlessly shocking. And sooner or later, the experimenters will have to address themselves to what remains the movies' main function-intelligible storytelling. But with all its excesses, the new cinema is bound to stimulate the medium. For one thing, it has already produced a modest but substantial body of exciting work. For another, it serves as a salon des refusés for aspects of the art rejected by the commercial cinema. Even though many Hollywood directors write off the experimenters as no-talent amateurs...
...problem is that Wellesley has not been able to keep up with its students. In the last 30 years, the woman's place in society has been changed radically, always moving inexorably towards social and economic equality with men. But womens colleges were invented to serve the unique function of preparing women to compete on unequal terms in a socially unacceptable race. The evolution of women's rights has made the underlying assumption of this special preparation obsolete. This need for the elimination of some of the formerly sacrosanct aspects of the traditional women's college has created an ambivalence...