Word: function
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Once all sciences were part of philosophy's domain, but gradually, from physics to psychology, they seceded and established themselves as independent disciplines. Above all, for some time now, philosophy itself has been engaged in a vast revolt against its own past and against its traditional function. This intellectual purge may well have been necessary, but as a result contemporary philosophy looks inward at its own problems rather than outward at men, and philosophizes about philosophy, not about life. A great many of his colleagues in the U.S. today would agree with Donald Kalish, chairman of the philosophy department...
While the Federal Government tightly regulates other forms of interstate commerce, from transport to pharmaceuticals, the FPC's main function is to approve the wholesale rates at which the nation's 3,600 electric companies can sell power to each other. Even during his investigation of the blackout, Swidler had to rely on the voluntary cooperation of the companies he was investigating. Despite the growth of huge power pools, through which utilities trade electrical output, Swidler pointed out, the FPC has no authority to set or enforce minimum standards for system design, operation of generating plants, or intersystem...
...typewriters keep up their nervous tattoo, the telephones go on ringing, the tides of paper flow in and out. Yet the White House-and indeed all of Washington-seems to function almost in a vacuum when the President is away. Despite the jet planes, private telephone lines and teletype circuits that constantly link the L.B.J. Ranch with the West Wing, Lyndon Johnson's absence from the capital affects the Administration like a power drain. Though his six weeks' stay on the L.B.J. Ranch 1,384 miles away has not been unusually long in comparison with other presidential absences...
...Washington aglow with new ideas and a euphoric sense that it could not go wrong, promptly collided with the feudal barons of the permanent government, entrenched in their domains and fortified by their sense of proprietorship." The result, he said, was that the permanent government "began almost to function as a resistance movement, scattering to the Maquis to pick off the intruders...
Keniston's mercy. It is in his power to make the uncommitted students he talks about attractive or offensive, justified or unjustified. That he takes their angst for an expression of midcentury malaise rather than, for example, a reaction to a hypocritical and impersonal institution is a function of his involvement with them and it. This quibble is not to suggest that the book should not have been written, merely that Keniston should have been more candid about his feelings toward his subjects and their environment...