Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community by keeping it informed on all matters regardless of whether they are controversial or illegal. The press can be an essential link between society and its marginal members, a form of communication which can promote understanding between the law and the lawbreakers. The press cannot perform this function if it does not have the right to protect its sources--without this right, talking to a reporter would be tantamount to confessing to a judge...
...updating for distribution to some 20,000 key politicians and editors as a kind of campaign manifesto. "And if 'business' is understood as being something infinitely more than a collection of managers, including also investors, workers, consumers and farmers ?all of whom draw sustenance from the function of business?there is nothing narrow-minded about it. 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business...
Another valid definition of a hero is "a person regarded as a model." In The Natural, Novelist Bernard Malamud has one character explain: "Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas...
...premier Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 52, third son* of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, decided to try to clarify the picture. Last week he named the first five members of an eight-man "secretariat" that will function as a sort of cabinet, supplement the 60-man privy council that already advises him, and seek to unify the monarchists. The head of the new secretariat is José Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning...
...Porcellian's Final Dinner (the last function of the punching season for all the clubs), each prospective member is required to tell one dirty joke, and his success in amusing the members often determines his fate at election time. New members are elected in December and initiated in February, when they are filled full of alchohol, led blindfolded through the Porcellian cubhouse, and finally unveiled before a large assemblage of exultant graduate members...