Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order was the outgrowth of daily living . . . The unique function of man, in their view, is to live in close, creative touch with chaos, and thereby experience the birth of order . . . Surprisingly enough, modern psychotherapists share this ancient knowledge...
...walking wounded, who can usually control their anxiety and its symptoms well enough to function as breadwinners or housewives, but periodically break down and wind up, in a severe anxiety state, in a psychiatrist's office or, briefly, in a mental hospital...
...experimenting with improvised works that seek to destroy the barrier between audience and artist. His traditional role is to assume the burdens of guilt and anxiety freely, transforming them in his own soul into works of art that can offer the audience catharsis or clarity. This is the function for which the artist is applauded, adored?and paid. More and more today, he rejects that function and insists on dragging his audiences into his own neurosis, shifting the burden of guilt and anxiety on to them...
...prove that the committee in the 1955 inquiry was not engaged in its primary purpose, that the investigation in the entertainment field did not perform a valid legislative function, that from all the hearings on entertainment since 1947 no legislation emerged, and that the purpose of the inquiry was to single out and expose individuals in order to deny them employment. Ross said also he intended to prove through Walter's testimony that the HUAC was "engaged in indiscriminate dragnet procedures...
This purpose necessitates knowing what type persons involved, what kind of activities they are involved in, and how influential they are, Tavener explained. This function is particularly important, he said, since the Communist Party has made a point of using name personalities as attractions in its activities...