Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoker action followed a defeat, 10-3, of the motion of Paul L. Scher '57 to abolish the function outright. The group then passed unanimously a bill by Larry R. Johnson '58, calling for Council appointment of a committee of members of past Union and Smoker committees to recommend to next year's Union committee the results of its investigation...
...Another function of the Fund Council office is to keep the graduate up to date on the happenings in the College. The annual pamphlets, explaining current Fund activities, often include sections with reports on progress within the College. By performing this service, the alumni office makes the graduate feel that he still is a part of the College and can play an active role in her future...
...President can effectively speak for the U.S. before the world. Cabinet officers can help, but they are really effective only when the President stands literally as well as figuratively beside them. More than most Presidents, Dwight Eisenhower adds a special personal plus to this presidential function. And for this reason the major task before him as he goes back to work is to re-establish in current terms the moral authority that has made the U.S. a hope and symbol through the long years of a much tougher kind of cold...
...After watching too many movies on TV, RCA Chairman David Sarnoff warned that "the true function of television will have failed if the film programming snowballs so as to become the dominant appeal." In an interview published by the trade paper Variety, Sarnoff holds out little hope that TVmen can save themselves from the movie blight. "Fortunately," he adds, "we have the public and advertisers to decide this for us . . . They may agree with us, or the movies-on-TV networks will take over...
...best of the lot is called Aesop's Last Fable, in which the bemused peasantry, irritated at the fabulist's inability to give a straight answer to a straight question, throw him over a cliff. Here March seems to indicate his sad beliefs as to the function and fate of the writer who says unwelcome things. As for the short stories, many of them concern madness and abnormality, and are set in a shambling Southern town called Reedyville. They have the sincere hysteria of a man recounting an intolerable experience to indifferent ears. Although his work was something...