Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vendler feels that poetry serves a valuable function in the way it allows people to express and explore their private existence. "Fiction and drama--which students see more of, even on television or at the movies--have to do with a person's life in society: You usually have to have two people to make a drama, and a novel tends to have a wide social canvas...[But] the only place where you hear what the soul says to itself when it's alone is poetry...
...Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across the three spacious galleries of the MFA's Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social function or historical relevance. As the exhibition labors to argue, the apparent ahistoricism of the initial salvo is possible only because Chinese culture itself has perpetuated the timelessness of its ancient aesthetic and philosophical traditions, allowing one to make logical comparisons across centuries of time (as Chinese artists often did themselves...
...perhaps the ideal platform, for example, from which to run a global project. "It is one of the great innovations of the last 20 years," says Paul Argenti, a professor of management communications at Dartmouth's Tuck School. But Argenti and others also say it is a medium whose function is confusing, in part because the process is so easy and informal that people treat it as they do conversation. "It's a never-never land between talking on the phone and writing," says Argenti. But as informal as it may be, E-mail is writing and constitutes a permanent...
...mentoring function of professors is severely affected if students are considered primarily [employees]," Wolff adds...
...David was crippled. He could not function forever without parental acceptance because of both his genuine love for his father as well as a sort of sadomasochistic conditioning. David died...