Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands play upon a disingenuous theme. The threatened institutions ostensibly serve so crucial a function that citizens must endure IRS fishing expeditions into their pockets to finance them. Harvard has a holy mission to churn out graduate students, the better to enlighten dark corners of the nation; farmers must preserve the virginity of their soil, and the SACB must root out subversives who jeopardize national security--all paid for, to greater or lesser degree, with tax money...
Likewise, this paragraph from a Crimson editorial responding to the Caldwell decision last summer still holds true: "Certainly members of the press do not constitute any elite class which should be granted special privileges before the Constitution. But the function of a free press, as outlined in the Constitution, demands that the privilege of confidentiality be bestowed the press and its functionaries, reporters. It is a right of profession: just as, in most states, a priest does not have to breach the contract of confession, and a lawyer is protected in discussions with a client accused of a felony...
SOMETIME LAST SPRING I turned on my T.V. and found myself watching a Harvard professor, standing on the steps of the Federal courthouse, explaining to the people of Boston his special place in our society. As a scholar, Professor Samuel L. Popkin argued it was his function to search out the truth and pass it on to the rest of us--and to facilitate his performance in this role we should grant him immunity from testifying before the grand jury about the sources of his information...
Quality is not an objective property of art works. It is a function of taste. And taste changes. Directors add their propositions to the long consensus a museum represents by buying, not by selling. A director must be either very lucky or a genius to break that consensus and create...
...report said, "A subsidy would enable HSA to stay financially secure as an organization while continuing in its function of providing productive work for needy undergraduates, a burden which will fall upon the University should HSA be forced to discontinue or greatly reduce operations...