Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintains four houses in Paris and its environs, but the doorbells don't function and the telephone numbers are changed frequently, even though they are unlisted. His favorite retreat when writing is a small chalet in the Swiss Alps, where he keeps a pair of high-powered binoculars with which he can study visitors before they arrive-vanishing utterly, like a mountain goat, if they are not to his taste...
...profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual. How many nations could guarantee the same if their heads of state were murdered...
...nonentity named Foxe, halfheartedly shovels history at fifth formers in the first phase. During Interphase, he is a political prisoner and then a refugee, frantic to eat and not be eaten (cannibalism is part of the chaotic interregnum). In the third phase, Foxe enlists in an army whose sole function, it turns out, is to relieve the population pressure by annihilating another army-and itself...
...publish Holy Writ in well over 600 tongues. By itself, it spreads the word in 299 languages and dialects. Its simple method is to devise, if need be, a phonetic version of spoken dialects, thus producing a useful tool for missionaries. For the Society's single-minded function is to supply enough forms of the Bible to make that book comprehensible to any human being anywhere...
...Method, it will at least have a counterbalance on the Pacific Coast. Stuart Vaughan has no fondness for The Method. "It seems to me that nothing exists for the audience if it is not heard or seen," he says. "Far from living the part, the actor's function is to tell the audience about an imaginary person who looks and talks and feels like this. I hope the main difference an audience will see in our plays is that they seem more real than others...