Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dana L. Farnsworth, director of University Health Services at Harvard, said yesterday that UHS doctors may discuss any issue with a girl, but may not supervise the use of contraceptives by unmarried girls. "This is not an appropriate function for a college health service, and it is against Massachusetts law," he said...
Oversight Function. The changed temper goes well beyond mere numbers and partisan disagreements over specific issues. The wide extent of the new mood was illustrated last week by statements from two high-ranking Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...mood of Congress so well, his remarks were greeted as a bellwether. "It occurs to me," said Mansfield in a letter to 17 committee chairmen, "that the next Congress will see the convergence of a unique opportunity with a great need for a concentrated Senate exercise of the oversight function. I would hope to see the beginning of a major re-examination of what we have done in legislation during the past few years. Considering the vast scope of this work and the unprecedented nature of much of it, it is to be expected that there exist a number...
...next two years played Shakespeare, Shaw and O'Neill. Later, he joined the Memorial Theater in Stratford on Avon, which has since grown into the pre-eminent Royal Shakespeare Company. He and Peter Brook are co-directors of the group although Scofield's chief function is that of spokesman "for the actor's point of view...
...English driver (Brian Bedford) who competes neurotically to break the track record of his dead brother, a one-time world champion. But Arthur soon forgets about his elaborately stated plot premise and does nothing with the character. An American (James Garner), supposedly the lead character, has such little function he hardly appears in the second half. The mechanies of the final race, involving the death of a French driver (Yves Montand), are staggeringly gratuitous: we are aware only of the omnipotent hand of the screenwriter trying desperately to take care of everything before the end titles...