Word: function
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...TIME'S Essay, "The New Melting Pot" [Dec. 2], has contributed greatly to a much needed and long overdue restatement of the structure and function of the U.S. Our democratic republic has always been the pioneer of the brotherhood of nationalities, the hope of the democratic governments and the champion of the U.N., so that this institution of all nations shall emerge as an effective instrument of peace and justice for all. As long as this American function continues, it will substantially encourage the pursuit of world improvement...
...most of the twoscore crowned heads listed in The Statesman's Year-Book fulfill a real function. In part, their significance is upheld by an old ally in a new guise: nationalism. The more closely peoples are brought together by high-speed communications and economic interdependence, the more they seem to react by turning inward to their national traditions. And to embody the sense of national integrity and unity when the going is tough, a king can do things that a President or a Prime Minister cannot...
...born when his mother wanted a girl, and she treated him as a girl. By adulthood, says Dr. Benjamin, the crossover of emotion and thought may be so deeply ingrained that "true transsexuals feel that they belong to the other sex, they want to be and function as members of the opposite sex, not only to appear as such." Psychiatric treatment, including long-continued analysis, has proved virtually worthless to patients who do not want to be changed emotionally, leading Dr. Benjamin to conclude: "Since the mind of the transsexual cannot be adjusted to the body, it is logical...
...only other argument against calling a special meeting is that the Senate Chamber is presently being repainted and redecorated. But the Senators of Massachusetts could certainly function effectively in their spacious reading room, the Hall of Flags, or even Fanueil Hall...
...Brustein's most visible product is a protest play called Viet Rock, which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says, is to be "the one remaining place where one can afford to fail...