Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Membership in NSA should by all means be continued at Harvard, but the Council would do well to make it the active membership it was in the 1946-1953 period, not the apathetic one it has been in the last three years. Participation in NSA can be a useful function of the Student Council, and one which should be subjected to periodic referendums. In this way Harvard students would become not only better informed about NSA, but more interested in developing its potentials. Harvard might profit even more than NSA, and trivia be transformed...
...Celler resolution, in providing that the Vice-President must undergo confrontation by Congress before taking office, avoids the major pitfall of the Eisenhower substitute. Congress, as the body most directly responsible to the people, should have this decisive function. With the impeachment power already vested in Congress by the Constitution, the question of reinstating the President, once he is again physically and mentally competent, solves itself. The Administration must realize the defects of its proposal in order to present a united front againt Mr. Rayburn and gain much needed legislation...
...said that the general empirical principle that meaningful verbal expressions must be analysable in terms of experience has been incorrectly identified with the proposition that analysis is the sole function of philosophy...
...depicted episodes of Rommel's career only demonstrate the stern yet cavalier character the public expects in a military hero, and leave his brilliance unsung. They are held together by the conflict between his professional conscience and personal consciousness. Rommel, who believed, "My function in life...to carry out the orders of my superiors," comes to realize that Hitler is a madman whose meddling can only bring disaster to the Wehrmacht. His private doubts eventually undermine the traditional sense of duty of his caste when he sees that obedience is forcing him to violate the proud...
...spend time "reading messages on movie and television screens to check their accuracy and relevancy" and "reading invitations, greeting cards." They can also master "using sign language" so they can interpret "directions indicated by hand or head signals," "the sign language of animals" and "traffic lights." Under the major function of "developing economic competence," they may learn about "returning things borrowed from fellow classmates promptly" (social studies), "operating audiovisual equipment" (science), "telling how a department store facilitates trade" (mathematics) and "observing 'Do It Yourself programs" (practical arts). Social studies can also include "greeting parents and other members...