Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bourne has interviewed cover subjects on location in such varied places as Edinburgh (Rudolf Bing), Chicago's South Side (Louis Armstrong) and Washington (Mamie Eisenhower), Other times, a staffer-even in World -has had to travel no farther than rosstown for the kind of story that is a function of TIME. Nancy Chase fas the first person from any major U.S. publication to interview representatives of the rebellious Algerian 'F.L.N. when they came to New York i 1955 to promote their cause...
Today, as the task of organizing and analyzing the world's news grows ever more complex, TIME could not function without its reporter-researchers. Each week they help shape and then send some 400 queries to correspondents and stringers round the world. In search of background information, they spend long hours culling the extensive resources of the magazine's editorial reference library. As always, an important part of their job is checking for accuracy-in TIME'S stories and in others. When Richard Nixon remarked, after the November election, that the Republicans had held 14 governorships...
...There has been a falling off in understanding of and awareness that the real function of the University-and I'm not talking about teaching and research, though these too are important-but beneath that and before that is learning and scholarship. I think if we can rehabilitate that idea we will begin to work out our problems," Pusey said...
...direct the nervous human flow-soldiers and doctors-are almost uniformly young. Many of them, perhaps half, are black. They function like workers on an assembly line at an automobile plant; without enthusiasm, without complaint...
While exactly what "hodge-podge of lesser services" implies remains hazy, it can be taken with some certainty to mean activities which are not centrally connected to the academic function of the University. Included in this category would be organizations such as PBH which have striven over the years to achieve an active involvement and rapport with the Cambridge and Boston communities...