Word: function
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...situation has also produced a new breed of critics whose function is not to enunciate or defend standards but to be explicators and publicists for the new. Rothenstein, once a champion of innovation himself, now complains: "Scarcely anything, when it is quite new, however manifestly idiotic, is forthrightly condemned." Small wonder. Past critics were thoroughly cowed and browbeaten, not unjustly, for their classic misjudgments, beginning with the scorn neaped on Manet's Olympia and culminating in the ridicule showered on the impressionists, the Fauves and the cubists. Critics now live in terror of seeming square. The trouble...
President Pusey and David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, will serve with six college presidents and a former governor on a commission to study the future structure and function of American higher education...
Some state leaders have promised that out-of-state applicants be charged more or even be excluded from the state colleges and university to make room for the rising number of California applicants. But this would restrict the university's ability to perform an important function--attracting talented and educated manpower into the state. Freezing faculty salaries or spending all of the regents' special contingency fund would be equally ill-advised...
These conspicuous absences prove the contrary of Marcus' suggestion that good writing is somehow a function of national power and prosperity and a product of the consensus that goes with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice...
What has accounted for this amazing reversal by the team which used to function as the bath mat of the League? Money. Or to be more explicit a spanking new pool which lures top-notch high school stars to Hanover...