Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultimately "the Obstacle," as military men call it, will stretch from the foothills of the Annamese Cordillera, the spiny range that bisects I Corns, to the South China Sea-a twelve-mile corrdor bristling with barbed wire, minefields, sensing devices, pillboxes and watchtowers. Its function will be to provide a wide field of fire in case of attack, but U.S. officers privately scorn it as a kind of mini-Maginot Line that will cost far more than it is worth. For one thing, V.C. mortars are zeroed in on the zone and have already killed four men and wounded...
...dropout. Above all, they speak, or shout, against the Viet Nam war. Says Sociologist Daniel Bell: "At best, the New Left is all heart. At worst, it is no mind." They changed the temper, the tone and to some extent the terms of political debate. The question is what function or future they have beyond that...
...Left's anger at the human condition, its yearning for love, these will, as always, be taken over by the poets, the preachers, and perhaps a few minor saints. The present New Left will undoubtedly fade without producing many middle-aged radicals. But it will have performed a function. There should always be a New Left-to drive conventional society to a constant, sometimes painful review of its own values...
Since local retailers will always need an advertising medium, King concluded, "the newspaper may stay alive as a business, while its primary function is ebbing away. In America, television journalism, radio journalism, magazine journalism are all livelier and more professional than the newspapers...
...offer of another beer, and the new arrival retreats to his room, wondering, among other things, precisely whose side the University Police are on. Future experience, in the Yard or beyond, rarely clears up the mystery; for, in fact, the University Police are a paradox in concept and in function. They serve as a uniformed police organization in an environment where formal authority is consciously minimized and camouflaged. And in the last five years, the "campus cops" have become more like a police force while remaining something very different...