Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam is over, and the Marines must think about where they might be called next-and would they be ready for battle in the Middle East? The Marines are also having trouble meeting their recruitment quotas, so they need to know how their reservists might function in combat. Nine thousand Marines took part last week in the largest maneuver ever, and the temperatures rose as high as 120°. From the simulated combat zone, TIME'S David DeVoss reported...
...says the Coleman panel, but by monopolizing young people's time, they also prevent them from acquiring skills elsewhere. Until about 50 years ago, a child learned how to be an adult in his life outside school, especially within his family. But the family no longer serves this function, and "school has expanded to fill the time that other activities once occupied without substituting for them." Segregated by age, today's young are saturated with information but starved for experience...
...nature of Miller's attraction to the uneducated woman and, hers to him in his failure to deal with her consumptive insecurity, congenital lateness, and the cancerous dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity was the lack of a father, which function Miller fulfilled for a time, but which Clark Gable in his role as her lover cowboy seemed to provide strongest, and filled at other times by DiMaggio and Yves Montand...
...entirely "within the President's inherent constitutional powers," said Ehrlichman. He added that after discussing "this with the President, he expressed essentially the view that this was an important, a vital national security inquiry and that he considered it to be well within the constitutional obligation and function of the presidency." That not only made Ehrlichman's claim sensational, but put him in apparent conflict with the President, who in his May 22 statement implied that the burglary was illegal...
Susan Sontag will probably never find her way into artistic significance. Not many people will read her books, and not many will watch her movies. But she has her function nonetheless. She is thinking all the time and she rides the crest of every new fashion; she is worth keeping an eye on. When the cultural wind shifts, she rustles in the breeze...