Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This issue of "race" has too often become a falsified and un-humanizing issue. In our opinions of individuals we may ignore "racial" distinctions. But when we come to think of ourselves in the flux of history and in the sense that we are a function of groupings of mankind, then we must honestly admit the polarity of our feelings. Therefore, however erroneously "race" may have become a major theme of recent history, it does have practical significance; and it must be faced carefully and creatively--if we are ever to undo its consequences. The selection of the terms, African...
...Government discontinued its 13-year censorship of such mail. "It serves no useful intelligence function," said President Kennedy. Congress, how ever, was not convinced. In 1962 it passed a law requiring the Post Office to hold all incoming "Communist politi cal propaganda" for 20 days, then de stroy it unless the addressee returned a card saying he wanted it. Respectable critics began to note an obvious dan ger: Post Office lists of "approved" addressees might well result in the hounding of innocent individuals, such as scholars and journalists...
Simon is a cautious and secretive man who jealously guards his own privacy and, believing that he can function more effectively out of the public eye, has become known as a mysterious operator in both the business and art worlds. Such privacy, however, is increasingly hard for him to maintain. He has been deluged by a flood of requests and offers since the London sale of Titus, including thousands of pleas for handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen...
...FUNCTION OF A CORPORATION: "Most companies will say: 'We are in business to make a profit.' I think the better companies could just as well say: 'Our primary purpose in business is sociological. Our whole objective is to treat our customers right, and treat our stockholders right, and treat our employees right.' I think many businesses are run on the basis of putting sociological needs first. We are beyond the day and age of the need of capitalism for survival. We need it for only one thing-the betterment of the human being. Certainly we have...
Bellow, who also accepted the white House invitation, commented that "the President intends, in his own way, to encourage American artists." He went on to say that he considered the arts festival "an official function, not a political occasion which demands agreements with Mr. Johnson on all the policies of his Administration...