Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, 30 ft. in diameter, and weighing as much as 50 tons-followed a week of rumors hi Moscow and a call at last month's 24th Soviet Communist Party Congress for a "piloted orbiting station." Hailed by headlines in Moscow newspapers, Salyut seemed clearly intended to function as the core unit of what Russian sources called an "orbiting shish kebab," with a number of manned spacecraft attached...
...frightened by the vast array of documented responses. There is a valuable point, however, to such a list. If the psychopharmacological mechanisms of cannabis intoxication are to be known, characteristics of the experience which are common to many users can be tied together in the search for a physiological function for marijuana. Grinspoon suggests such a connection...
Above the position of "Inner Processean Messenger" is that of "Prophet," one who is preparing to be ordained as a Superior. The Superiors are divided according to function: "Priests" are responsible for the administration of the chapter; "Evangelists" evangelize; the "Matriarch" sees to the spiritual well-being of the chapter. Above them all, concerned not only with running the chapter but also with running and deciding the policy of the Church as a whole, is the "High Master...
...Investigation does function politically, however, as the direct consequence of its "apolitical" stance. As a consumer-item viewed in a dark theatre by a passive, alienated mass, film already constitutes a mystical, reified object, a spectacle that obscures the conditions of its production: that it is man-made, that it isn't a Larger-than-Life-Reflection-of-Reality, that it is merely a celluloid construct. The Hollywood artistry Petri employs, and the Ideology of Ambiguous Truth he promotes, reinforce the perverse relation between the audience and their fetishized entertainment commodity, his film becomes an exciting, confusing, reassuring, self-inclusive...
...post, by William P. Bundy, Yale '39, the former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, now a consultant to M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies. This change of management at the upper level is indicative of the criticism most frequently made of Foreign Affairs: that its only function is to serve as an apologist for the foreign policy establishment. Currently, the magazine's editorial board includes such well known State Department names as MacGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, John J. McCloy, and President Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger...