Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...material is superior, then we have to control passions, which should be used for proper purposes, just as steam has to be utilized for energy, not for scalding people. Government will have to set an example in its own actions. You see, to make people fearless is more a function of government than of anything else, because people are afraid of government more than any other agency. And you have to set them at rest that no honest man will ever have to suffer under that government. On the contrary, honest men will be supported and respected. Then you will...
...Cambridge resident also performed pioneering research relating thyroid gland function and heart failure...
...natural style. Carter's entire campaign to reach the White House was built on the strategy of persuading the public to trust him. Without the solid backing of the Democratic Party's traditional power blocs, like the labor unions, Carter believes that he must function as a kind of political guerrilla, building a base at the grass roots. Says one White House aide: "In effect. Carter has to keep on campaigning." He also needs to get widespread backing to put pressure on Congress if it balks at passing his programs...
...types. While retaining much of the original dialogue, Pinter and director Elia Kazan have dispensed with the device of Cecilia as narrator; instead, we see Stahr head-on, dominating the film in the same way that he dominates everyone around him. The extent of his control is partly a function of the script, but it is enhanced immeasurably by Robert DeNiro's charismatic performance. DeNiro is brilliant in the role, evoking alternately the shrewd competence and romantic vulnerability which together make Stahr so intriguing a personality...
There was, however, an unfortunate tendency for some psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts especially, to inherit the priestly function of taboo enforcement. Menninger, for example, described homosexuality as "high in the kingdom of evil" and stated that he could not bring himself to "condone it." If, as the good doctor supposed, homosexuality is an illness, how does one "condone" or condemn...