Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another Luther. Even as it gropes toward ecumenical union, Protestantism stands threatened by secular inroads and spiritual indifference. Ranking church leaders openly question the relevance of Christianity, while old denominational quarrels have been upstaged by a new threat of schism: crisis-centered activists who see the church's function as worldly service, against heaven-glancing traditionalists who argue that Christ's message was to save souls not nations...
...life's meaning also runs through End of the Road. "In a sense, I am Jacob Horner," the book's narrator begins, with typical uncertainty. Then he conducts a tour along the "weatherless" days of his life. Hornet suffers low-pressure areas during which he ceases to function. Hypnotized by the multitude of life's choices, he can make no choice at all. The novel is partly autobiographical. It is laid in Maryland, where Earth grew up; Horner teaches English at Wicomico State Teachers College, while Earth teaches English at the Buffalo campus of New York State...
Luce's fabled concentration was a function of his jealousy of wasted time. For the same reason, he was a ruthless enemy of small talk-it bored him, and he made little effort to hide the fact. To forestall chitchat, his most effective weapon was the wild-swinging question. Many a correspondent and editor sitting with him at dinner has been hit by some such query as: "Do you think Los Angeles makes any sense?" After a visitation from Luce, one correspondent reported that he was left "intellectually black and blue." Harry's whole life, one editor aptly...
Penfield said that in the course of operations to remove small, malfunctioning parts of the brain from epileptics, he had electrically stimulated areas of the brain and determined their function. The operations were done under local anesthetic, so that the patients were conscious...
Most of them are conducted in informal, periodic dinner meetings. It is hard at this point, Neustadt feels, to predict what shape the groups' results will take. But Dean Price feels that the groups may have a function analagous to the seminars held by the Council on Foreign Relations in that they could stimulate one of their participants to write a scholarly work on a problem raised and discussed by the groups...