Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Space. Finally last week the President solved it for everyone. He named Frank Roosevelt, 50, to a two-year term as the first chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an agency created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The board begins its official function on July 2, investigating specific complaints of job discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex among labor unions or employers with 25 or more workers. Beyond "informal methods of conference, conciliation and persuasion," the commission cannot do much about intransigent violators except to wait for already overworked Civil...
...Professor Richard Hofstadter defines the intellectual as a man who lives for ideas, while the professional man lives off ideas. In a new book, The New Radicalism in America, Iowa State Historian Christopher Lasch defines the intellectual as "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play...
...second assumption is that the intellectual must be a critic of his society, an opponent of established values, playing the part of a secular and reproachful cleric. This Socratic role has always been one essential function of the intellectual, but only in recent times has it come to be looked on as the only function; a great many intellectuals today demand their daily cup of instant hemlock...
Sinnott expresed surprise that the Leverett House function had been discouraged by the Police Department and said that he would look further into the matter. Joseph A. Nadol '66, co-chairman of the Leverett House Social Committee, said that the dance will be held in the Leverett Dining Hall unless there are new developments...
Some major changes: > Courses are becoming less specialized, more intellectual and analytical. "Our function," says Dean Bernard F. Landuyt of Detroit University's college of commerce, "is to train business leaders, not clerks." When Robert R. Dockson became dean of the University of Southern California's school of business administration five years ago, he revamped its content from top to bottom, adding to the faculty experts in sociology, philosophy, political science and physics. Says he: "I cut out all the Mickey Mouse courses that were purely descriptive...