Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press sees its own function as being critical of all aspects of U.S. life," says Richard Seamon, the senior editor of the section, "but is itself peculiarly sensitive to criticism." And since the press regards itself as alone equipped to criticize its own performance, but in public rarely does, it is a very windswept corner where Seamon and Koffend...
...Publisher Samuel Newhouse, whose appetite for new "properties," as he calls them, is inexhaustible. Newhouse would not even bid on a paper that was losing $2,000,000 a year. The Mirror simply had nothing to sell that others were not selling better. TV had usurped its entertainment function. And even sex, that once dependable tabloid ware, was not so marketable any more. Contemporary fiction and the new girlie magazines did the job more clinically than any newspaper could hope to. Besides, the newspaper reader had outgrown the Mirror. He wanted news...
Like few other comedians, he can function as master of ceremonies before a dinner of titans and financiers and never seem to be just a fast-talking gagman rung in for the night. He carries off that sort of thing with an offhand assurance that suggests he's really one of the big tycoons who just happened to take the podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California...
...world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function of awakening in Cust a conviction of sin and the possibility of salvation...
...Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...