Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in a nation where journalism is increasingly an empty choice between television, Time and the Associated Press, its first duty should be to report and analyze important news and developments honestly and fully. We cannot afford the outpourings of frustrated novelists so long as this function--journalism's most basic one--remains unfulfilled...
...short, the intelligence which Hernstein views as basically innate and "irreplaceable" depends much more on opportunity and encouragement, i.e. on environment, than he even wants to consider. Because it does, society can function better and husband its mental resources more effectively by providing such opportunity and encouragement to all its various groups and classes, not just to a vain elite which credits its biological inheritance for qualities due chiefly to outside influences...
There is no recognizable squad which can fulfill its necessary function in the Harvard soccer program and there have been few efforts to maintain the unit...
...hate to see reading period cut because it is an integral part of the students' education," Rosovsky said. "But we can only carry out our educational function within our allocated fuel supplies...
...yachts, highway cruisers, gold-plated luxo-boats which drank Arab blood and ferried the rich and damned descendants of the former rootless races--Jews, yes, and Pilgrims too, as well as the sons of slaves! In the funeral Cadillac, all men are equal! What satisfaction for the poor to function in this process as a sacred ministry of leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills...