Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both their craft and their function as role models seriously. Their like has not been seen since-and, sibling, do we need them...
Many modern historians assume that history flows glacially in a certain direction, and that it is their function to chart that flow, toward liberty, or capitalism, or the national state. Foucault claims, by contrast, that there are sharp breaks-"discontinuities," he calls them-separating one historical period from another. At each such break, the new age unconsciously creates a new intellectual framework for its view of the world...
Although the shuttle is now operating on a "minimum flight plan," National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials are "very optimistic" that a full mission can be accomplished, as long as the two remaining fuel cells continue to function at acceptable levels, Mack Herring, a NASA spokesman, said last night...
...Does it all function to your satisfaction, keeping you briefed and current on everything...
That discovery may aid the prevention of childhood blindness. And Wiesel says the idea of a "critical period" could perhaps apply to much more complicated brain function. "Deprivation of attention, emotion, what a mother provides for a child, emotional contact with siblings--there is evidence that kids lacking these things develop more slowly," he explains, adding, "Perhaps it is important to stimulate people to use their intellectual and emotional resources early...