Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variance with the President's. By its nature, the relationship encourages a rather intense rivalry. No President is likely to feel altogether comfortable with the man a heartbeat away from the job he usually covets; and only if the President dies does the Veep fulfill his real function. As John Adams acknowledged when he became Vice President: "I am nothing, but I may be everything." Some Presidents are truly surprised when they discover that their Veep has built up a political following of his own. "Think of it-Charley Fairbanks!" exclaimed Theodore Roosevelt on learning that his Vice President...
...photographs Raffael used had an obvious function: they froze time. Pictures of this size (some 6 ft. by 9 ft.) cannot readily be made by setting up an easel beside some river in northern California; only Monet, with his unequaled powers of observing and retaining a fleeting effect of light and movement, could paint his water-lily murals in open air at Giverny with gardeners struggling to haul the vast 19-ft. canvases in and out of his studio. But Raffael's images are not ruled by their starting point in the photo. They are recreation, not enlargement; between...
...gurus and the yogis serve a similar function in the present-day United States. Young people groping for sense amid the numbing madness can grasp at anything that seems ordered and coherent--even a chubby teen-age Perfect Spiritual Master who rides a motorcycle when he is not dispersing the Word. Suffering, illogic and irrationality must be explained if people are to function in the world, and in the swirling confusion of the moment, almost any form of consistency can pass for truth...
BICKEL: I also think it was an unwise action. The critical point is that the highest national interest lies in the speediest resolution of all this. The House may or may not turn out to have a function that coexists with that of the judiciary. There was nothing to be lost and everything to be gained in appointing a select committee and getting a process started that is bound to be lengthy...
...rough, schematic set of plans and elevations that showed a flowering of concrete shells, like sails or beaks, rising to a height of more than 200 ft. above a horizontal podium. There was only the sketchiest indication of function. The architect, an almost unknown 38-year-old Dane named Jørn Utzon, had worked none of that out; he did not, as he later remarked, expect to win. Utzon's victory, it is believed, was largely due to one of the judges, the late Eero Saarinen, whose own fondness for shell construction had been embodied a year before...