Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public, the Senate has lost most of the entertainment value which it had in an earlier day of fewer diversions, when people followed the varied Senate debate with delight and wonder. It also has lost some of its former function as the country's educator in public issues: such education comes from many other sources now. But it retains considerable influence on national opinion, and Professor James MacGregor Burns, for one, believes that this influence is more important than its old formal power in the checks-and-balances system. "What the President wants today is the advice and consent...
...those administering the new assignment system do not seem in agreement over how many letters the mechanism needs to function effectively. Dean Monro has encouraged letters of preference, saying the "system depends strongly on them," while Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, has said, "The system will work well if the number of letters is small." The upshot is that the Committee will key its definition of "substantial" on the number of letters its receives, but the freshmen will remain in the dark until after they have already made the decision whether or not to write...
...play the new music he had to dispense with the traditional flute technique and develop a new one. After several years of experiment, he developed one that permits him to cacophonize like an electronic menagerie. His art appalls the classical masters, but it reveals an exciting and significant new function of the flute...
...perhaps impossible. Moreover, such terms as "mental disease and mental defect" give expert psychiatric witnesses a blank check. "It seems clear that a test which permits all to stand or fall upon the labels or classifications employed by testifying psychiatrists hardly affords the court the opportunity to perform its function of rendering an independent legal and social judgment...
...Snorkels. Another architect who is fed up with faceless, anonymous architecture that conceals function is John Johansen, 49, whose Goddard Library at Clark University in Massachusetts looks more like a photocopying machine than a glassy showcase for books. Johansen believes that architects, like all thinking people today, yearn to pierce through established façades: "Nothing goes unquestioned today; nothing is taken at its face value...