Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical--similar to the malcontent of the '60s. I think that a lot of the underpinnings of the government have been ripped loose, not just because of the energy or economic crisis but by the growing feeling that there is just nothing anymore that is able to perform the function of standing fast and being the subject or object of respect or inspiration...
...office with a wide range of concerns will spend its first months trying to determine exactly what are women's educational needs in the Radcliffe-Harvard community. With a small staff, this takes time--time to make contact with women scattered throughout the campus, time to study how women function here. Communication (if only there were a lesstired word) will be the key to the success of an office in such an embryonic stage. Clearly the Office of Women's Education needs money to grow and thrive...
Heimert and Bok were in Miami yesterday at an alumni function, and could not be reached for comment...
Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, on the other hand, brought rigorous scientific standards to his judgments on the story, and an admitted predisposition to skepticism. "Belief in these matters," he feels, "is less a function of intelligence than of psychological need." Although he firmly believes that even such widespread phenomena as déjà vu and precognitive dreams will eventually yield to rational analysis, he cannot rationally explain why, three times in a row last week, his clock-radio failed to go off, making him late for work...
Speaking at the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center on "Racism in the United States and Cuba," Marxist economist Edward Boorstein said, "Black nationalism in America serves the same function as nationalism in Cuba. It has performed an educational role and taught them to value their own values...