Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems stemmed from the lateness of the hour and the fact that the material wasn't much to work with. "The Young Person's Guide" brilliantly serves its original function--that of musical back-up for a children's documentary on the instruments of the orchestra--and is even a catchy enough piece in its own right. But the narration, rarely leaving the level of "And now, here's the Big Bass Drum," was clearly written for children and is a pointless text for this audience. Even Professor John Finley's gracious reading couldn't help but bog down...
...national socialism," whose abbreviation terrorized the world during the Second World War, still have a negative connotation in this country. Thus they never enter into Walter Heitmann's discussion of the Chilean economy. But his references to national ownership of resources, of worker participation in management, and the social function of corporations, together with his firm belief in capitalism and foreign investment, make Heitmann a clear, if unconscious, heir of the ideologies prevalent in the '20s, '30s and '40s, when leaders in Italy and Germany espoused a corporatism whereby all groups would contribute an essential share to the health...
Synthetics are used to replace many worn-out body parts, and even organ transplants have become relatively commonplace. Machines routinely supplement the function of failing kidneys. There are new methods of detecting and treating genetic defects. Hypertension is becoming more manageable; the coronary-bypass operation has made productive citizens of invalids. Even certain cancers, notably Hodgkin's disease and leukemia, have shown remarkable remissions under treatment. Infant mortality is less than 19 per thousand, and the contemporary child can expect to live four years longer than his parents. This may be a mixed blessing, considering our bafflement about...
...talking at the airport, and at a lull in the conversation one of our hosts said, the way you might ask a stranger how did he like President Ford, "In your opinion, what is the main motive force in history?" My impression was that it served the same function as a question about Ford might--to see if we were on the same side, as it were. The only other time someone seemed to be asking a question for that reason was when a schoolteacher asked about the Vietnam war: I guess students tend to be more theoretically minded than...
...place: no clocks, uneasy room-numberings that make us jump from floor to floor. Use of the word "egress." When H.H. Richardson designed the building in 1878 he and his associates paid careful attention to the details of the inside; and the outside, as well, was keyed to function (the long banks of windows, for instance, gave classrooms a then-unheard-of degree of natural illumination). But Harvard's modernization of the interior, years after Richardson's death, left Sever maligned...