Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Fulbright hearings on Red China ended last week, they had produced little to cause the Administration to change its basic policy. Since Americans are more aware of and more interested in Europe, the sessions did perform a useful function in getting China into the headlines. Chairman J. William Fulbright took what comfort he could from that fact...
...Public Administration School before going to work for Lazard Frères in Paris as an investment analyst. Alexandre soon became disturbed by the obstacles that traditional business secrecy placed in the path of expanding business activity. He decided to shatter the secrecy with an organization that would function partly like a Wall Street brokerage house and, by necessity, partly like the French government's intelligence-hunting Deuxième Bureau. With a loan from Zurich's Swiss Credit Bank, he opened offices in his apartment: his staff used a bedroom and dining room, his secretary typed...
...hormone replacement program that Dr. Wilson advocates is designed to deal with a process of nature. A woman's output of sex hormones, which come mainly from her ovaries, decreases with the menopause and nears zero as she nears 80. This would cause little distress if the only function of the hormones was to preserve her monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation-it would simply mark the end of her fertility period. But some of the hormones, especially the estrogens, fill many other biological needs. They help to keep the breasts firm and the skin supple and relatively wrinkle...
...points to Oxford, his own alma mater, as an institution which has consistently succeeded in producing such graduates. Undergraduate specialization is even greater than at Harvard, and the colleges must play an important role in general education. Chalmers feels that the Harvard Houses should serve a similar function; to this end he has acted to increase intellectual ferment within Winthrop. One feels he would be entirely happy if Winthrop could resemble Balliol or Oriel in the days when Jowett and Whately walked the earth--sanctums where living and learning were inseparable and where student-faculty dialogue constituted the most exciting...
...having films on hand to study--I took it for granted, and said I took it for granted, that I was not being telephoned to confirm that. What I emphasized was not merely the need for a film library as a condition for research and instruction, but also the function of such an institution in simply helping to preserve this body of perishing work. That so little effort has been given to this is only another instance of American culture's mad ingratitude or indifference toward its own best products. American universities are coming to accept their new responsibility...