Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks. He can't carry the Midwest again. He's a cosmetic candidate and it wears off. This Administration is like a machine headed by a mechanic. He is a hard fighter, a gut fighter. But we have him on the economy. This economy will not function under his leadership." All that, of course, remains to be seen between now and Election Day next year...
...Collegium was formed in response to increasing inequities in the choral situation at Harvard. There was a clear need for an excellent standing mixed group, oriented primarily toward undergraduate musicians, which would represent Harvard on tours outside of Cambridge. This function was not fulfilled by either of the other two mixed groups or by the Harvard Glee Club (HGC) and Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) performing together. Of the extant groups, the University Choir is tied to Memorial Church and does not tour, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, which admits anyone who wants the opportunity to sing, is intended primarily...
...reticence in dealing with politics and money and newspapers and race and cigarettes lit up and put out, one suspects, is a function of her insecurity as a woman in dealing with a man's world. One wonders about the convolutions and distractions of woman's writing in the thirties and forties. Gertrude Stein, and even Anais Nin. In her next novel, Eudora Welty should imitate the solidity, the involvement with things that matter in One Time. One Place. And she is writing another novel...
Harvard's shooting advantage of 12 to 9 was largely a function of the Crimson's strong play in the second half when the attack settled down to a ball-control, yet hard pressing attack. Long crossing passes to the opposite wings were used effectively and allowed deep penetration by the consistently open men on the side...
...vanquish Ceram entirely. In The First American, Ceram/Marek is back in his old haunts, providing once more a loving, readable, penetrating excavation of antiquity, this time in the New World, where he has settled. The Old World's overlay of monuments and documents often makes archaeology a function of history; in North America it is more closely related to anthropology. Still, as Ceram delves into early man's development here, he cannot resist a good human-interest story...