Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Teenage America contest in Dallas, I hasten to take great exception to your flip reporting of the event [Nov. 20]. These young ladies were fine, dignified representatives of their cities and states. The only time they did the monkey and the bird was at a purely recreational function, after putting in grueling rehearsal hours for the telecast. At all times they were protected by security officers, in addition to their mothers or chaperones...
...column. "But there was always the chance of an accident. The firing kept getting closer. Then I saw one of the Simbas fire into the crowd and I saw people running. Everybody began running. I was not running properly and I fell down twice. My legs wouldn't function right. A guy ahead of me went over a wire fence. I decided it was best to keep down. I didn't hear any screams during the firing. Funny. I always thought that people being shot at screamed...
...educated man who must bear the burden of making democracy in a technical age a responsible form of government. Though everyone, of necessity, will have to function as a specialist, it is only through the acquisition of a wide and deep general background that anyone will be able to function effectively as a citizen...
...Hubert Humphrey erroneously credits "that mythological god Atlas" with the ability "to touch the earth and gain strength" [Election Extra]. Atlas was a Titan, not a god, whose function in Greek mythology was the support of the earth on his back. His strength was sapped, not supplemented, by the crushing burden...
...hardly fail to marvel at the dedication of Thomas M. Welch '66 who, on the subject of the function of the University, writes in a recent letter to the CRIMSON: "Those who would seek the Truth by endeavoring to synthesize a liberal knowledge of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities are welcome at Harvard." Nor, surely, does he blaze new intellectual trails by resolutely declaring his opposition to Harvard's degeneration into "an intellectual factory capable of nothing more than spewing out a myriad of narrow-minded technicians and pedants." Yet Mr. Welch's stirring prose seems informed...