Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncertainty about the scope of private violence is a function of shame, of hushing up. Such crimes, unlike slashings or shootings on sidewalks and in taverns, often leave a victim more hurt and humiliated than outraged. Historically, beatings by one's husband, like rapes, were bad enough to suffer but more shameful still to reveal publicly. Child-rearing, no matter how harshly executed, was an entirely private matter...
...have the larger say. We do not think that the Nicaraguan opposition can legitimize its position through the use of force. On the contrary, we think that right now the Nicaraguan authorities are doing their very best to find a mechanism by which political parties will be able to function in that society...
...Japan and the U.S. extend to economic and defense fields, and these are indeed difficult issues. They have been compounded by fiscal and budgetary constraints in Japan. I think it is like traveling through Antarctic waters, where we have to avoid icebergs without damaging the ship. Both nations do function under a democratic party system, so neither of us can afford to take such a great risk that we endanger our administrations. Both the Congress and the Japanese Diet, while maintaining compassion for each other's position, should try to measure the depth of the water...
...like the keeper of the dog Lulu, which regularly irrigated the shoes of officials who danced attendance on the Emperor. Recalled the keeper: "I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." The function of another aide was to act as the monarch's animated timepiece, bowing several times as "a signal to His Perspicacious Majesty that one hour was ending and that the time had come to start another...
...well told the story of the American fighting man as the American fighting man wanted it told." The standard was dubious, but the praise sincere. For the public these moments pass rather quickly, like any death in a war. Yet these killings are central to the function of journalism. In odd ways, if briefly, they clarify the relationship among the news, those who report it and the people who seek those reports...