Word: function
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...succinctly: The Harvard "core" curriculum is no curriculum at all. As a neighboring liberal arts institution 1947 curricular reform report put it: "It is the function of a liberal college to require at least an intelligent consideration of a few of the fields of knowledge which the college, by the fact of its teaching them, has market as significant." Such marking requires that the Faculty define a hierarchy, establish educational priorities, make a judgement on what is fundamentally important for an educated American and what is secondary or important for the specialized scholar. The Harvard Faculty finds doing this...
...have the tools at the doctor's disposal changed, but so has the doctor-patient relationship. In the early 1900s, a doctor was primarily a comforter, someone who stayed at the side of the patient and tried to guide him through his illness. More than anything, the doctor's function was the "laying on of hands," the handling and touching of the patient in an effort to provide much needed attention...
...plant currently provides steam and chilled water to 12 Harvard-affiliated hospitals in Boston. Governmental approval for MATEP to generate electricity, its chief money-saving function, has so far been stalled because of environmental concerns...
Jankowski is not talking about quality entertainment here. He is defining the networks' primary function: to make money, not by selling programs to viewers but by selling viewers-in bulk, watching a prime-time show-to advertisers. The ad agencies are still buying, despite skyrocketing rates ($91,000 for the average 30-sec. spot in prime time, up 125% since 1975). Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president at the Dancer Fitzgerald agency: "The advertisers will keep paying these prices until they decide there's a better game in town...
...Ernest Hemingway. He wrote often to Henry Luce, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and T. S. Eliot '10, and occasionally to Felix Frankfurter. J. Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait of a powerful and flexible mind, of a man with human weaknesses and blind spots but also considerable generosity, wit, judgment and brilliance...