Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most tragic failures, notably the Civil War. British Political Scientist Denis Brogan points out that "the immediate cause of the greatest breakdown of the American political system was the breakdown of the party system, the failure of the party machinery and the party leaders to remember their national function, which, if carried out, was the justification of the varied weaknesses and absurdities of the party organizations and policies. Not until the party system broke down, in the dissolution of the Whigs, in the schism of the Democrats, was war possible." Similarly, it has been when one or another party isolated...
...their philosophical emphasis on government at the local and state levels, seem to realize the city's significance. One who does is Ford Foundation's Malcolm Moos, Eisenhower's best speechwriter and a man who comes perhaps closer than anyone today to fulfilling the function of Republican ''thinker." Says Moos: "The great urban areas represent places which the Republican Party can homestead. Let's take the carbon monoxide out of the air, let's solve the water shortage, let's clean up the rivers, let's move against corruption and crime...
...read, because they don't know they're doing it." The technique also breaks down inhibitions. "It's like a rusty lock," explains Levine. "Put a key into it, and it won't work. Keep trying, and it will loosen up and begin to function." He is convinced that music is a key to learning to read. Since all the grades in his school began using the technique, the percentage of retarded readers there has been halved. In a nine-month trial, one class that employed the music jumped four months ahead of a class using...
Levine's notion that music and bodily movement could aid learning came from a curiosity about how people function in certain circumstances. "A good trial lawyer moves around in the courtroom to help himself think better," he says. "I think better when I move around. My 12-year-old son does a kind of dance when he explains something to me. There is a physical accompaniment to a mental process...
...fixed-wing aircraft and with the added advantage of being able to land downtown. Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, who has been building helicopters for 56 years and recently sent his Skycrane to Viet Nam, believes the day is coming when helicopters carrying 100 passengers or more will serve the same function as buses and commuter trains...