Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps...
...insultingly brief, considering the amount of work put into the paper. "Able job," "fine work," "sloppy reasoning"--these comments do not educate. Ideally, as Robert P. Wolff noted, students should be writing papers every week, and going over them word by word with an instructor. Courses cannot fulfill this function--more properly reserved for tutorial work--but course graders might be able to talk with students about their papers, if there were more men among whom to divide the work. If the comment on a paper does not suggest in some way what to do next, it serves no purpose...
...Bunting sees the Institute's primary function as providing opportunities and encouraging educated women to believe that their talents can and will be useful. The national response to her venture has been almost overwhelming. Widespread publicty followed the first announcement last Fall; President Kennedy acclaimed the move; and nearly 250 qualified women from all over the United States applied for admission to the Institute. In her attempt to salvage educated women from the intellectual stockpile, Mrs. Bunting has fired the imagination and enthusiasm of the group she most wanted to reach...
...many U.S. companies do not accept the fact that if a missile is to work 75% of the time, the components made by each subcontractor must function perfectly 99% of the time. Building this kind of reliability into a product drives costs up: quality-conscious Minneapolis-Honeywell figures that its control systems add 20% to the cost of the items it makes for inertial-guidance systems. Worse yet in the eyes of manufacturers rushing to meet over-optimistic production schedules, uncompromising quality control is a time-consuming process...
Take Notice. The Pentagon is trying to find new formulas. The Navy, which has shown how to move fast and effi ciently with its Polaris program, is developing a management-control system nicknamed "Mascot." Mascot's goal: to give on one giant diagram a clear picture of the function of each contractor and sub contractor, which ones have to be speeded up to keep the project on schedule, and what the effect of speedups or delays would be on costs. And in a contract recently signed with RCA for the SAINT satellite-inspection system, the Air Force stipulated that...