Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Damaging Proportions. So far, the function of the substance, even in normal amounts, is unknown. Its level in the bloodstream generally rises under conditions of stress, however, so it is apparently involved in the biochemistry of tension and anxiety. In the schizophrenic patient, Gottlieb points out, tension and anxiety are already "out of control." Thus its level may rise unchecked to mind-damaging proportions. By coincidence, the Worcester Foundation research team working with Dr. John R. Bergen discovered and tested similar blood fractions simultaneously with the Lafayette team. They injected the substance into rats that had been trained to reach...
Vaccines and preventive medicine have eliminated most of the "contagious diseases." Today, South Department for the most part stands empty and closed. Some of its buildings have been put to use as psychiatric and day-care centers, but South Department's basic function is gone...
...should be respected. But when the methods employed by students to achieve their ends interfere with the rights of others, the question is no longer one of student power but of student tyranny. And tyranny cannot be tolerated in universities if these institutions are going to be allowed to function...
...procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical-power of students to hire and fire them...
...elements that make up the medium, define it, and limit it. In film, for example, the dynamics are what effects the lenses have, how easy it is to move the camera around, what kind of thing the camera records, and so forth. Now in order to be able to function well within a medium, you have to work primarily with the kind of things the medium was designed to deal with. That's why some rock groups that have a great loud, heavy sound live don't come across on records. They write music to be played...