Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as the national political climate has forced ABLE to become more political, Kronick says the organization cannot afford to stray far from its function of solving the problems of particular disabled students in their existence in the Harvard community. ABLE continues to work on the bread-and-butter issues of disabled student life--transportation to classes, getting classes moved to accessible rooms when necessary and the like. In doing this, quiet lobbying is usually a sufficient technique, Kronick says. Although the group has counseled people on filing complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she says...
...court in Amman, when some 160 prominent professional and religious leaders pelted King Hussein with questions about why Jordan had not broken relations with the U.S. over the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They went so far as to ask why Jordan was not willing to permit democratic institutions to function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians, both men and women, trained to defend the country. Considering the danger that...
...body. Shut your eyes and use it." Miles protests. He may not know who he is, but he is certainly not the kind of man who would submit to such shameless immorality, and in a hospital to boot. Naked now, the doctor and nurse intensify their ministrations. "Our sole function," explains his physician, "is to provide you with a source of erotic arousal...
They bicker over the details of their previous meetings. She says that he has learned nothing from her inspirations: "The world's full of highly pertinent male-female situations whose fictional exploration does subtend a viable sociological function-and yet this is the best you can come up with. Muses . . . I mean, Christ...
...sweated, or is about to sweat does not interest me sexually," says John McGrath, an Atlanta sportswriter. "I also have a hard time being attracted to anyone who can beat me up." Paul Corkery, a Los Angeles novelist, thinks the strong woman is chasing form without the function: "It's as if they're all in training for the Olympics. They're all muscled up with nowhere...