Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of ways to make the federal budget show a truer picture of what the U.S. Government actually spends. James Keogh, also 52, who is on leave from his post as executive editor of TIME, will be a special White House assistant handling a new job in which his function will be, he said, that of "a sort of managing editor, coordinating the research, writing and production process of all statements and speeches coming out of the White House." Dr. Martin Anderson, 32, author of The Federal Bulldozer (1964), a controversial critique of urban renewal programs, will leave Columbia, where...
...hours is a model of well-written exposition, neatly paced and satisfying to all. Other crucial plot points crumble in treatment: the obligatory submarine flooding scene is telegraphed too early by deliberately distracting conversational small-talk injected suddenly into a script previously given over to cut-and-dried function. More irritating, 90 percent of the mechanics involving a crucial roll of film (and far be it for me to spoil) everything by telling you what's on it!) are fuzzy and contrived, particularly after the clarity of the previous exposition...
...integrative function of the army lies in its teaching Hebrew and technical and mechanical skills and in making the immigrants feel Israeli," Eisenstadt said. "This has been so successful within the army that when immigrants complain of discrimination, they usually complain of everything but the army," he continued, even though, if they take a close look at the officers and the higher echelons of the Israeli armed forces they "would probably find that they are less proportionately represented than in most other places...
...similar caliber. For example, the reader meets only one free black man, and instead of living in the city as custom, common sense, comfort, and economic necessity would dictate, this man and his family are starving to death in the impoverished countryside. The man's only apparent function in the story is to show the inability of blacks to live without the guidance of white people and to verbally excoriate Nat's excessively cruel master. By contrast, the slaves are somewhat better fed and generate an aura of contentment. I noticed that some of the slaves suffered under cruel masters...
...Like most proposed reforms, Nixon's looked fine on paper. Whether in fact they will prove more efficacious than the present system is uncertain. Much will depend on the quality of the brainpower assembled under Kissinger, the ability of the State Department and the Pentagon to function more independently than at present while still satisfying the President, and whether the pace and press of developments abroad permit the top echelon of Government the luxury of deep thought...