Word: function
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...changed the internal politics of his homeland, Communist Poland. Within the Roman Catholic Church he has striven dramatically to end the era of flux, confusion and experimentation that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. He is also ebulliently engaged in transforming the image, and even the function, of the venerable office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical factory hand and outdoorsman. If his strength carries him through this crisis, he is likely to use that vigor once again...
When Mitterrand officially takes over power from Giscard on May 21, his first act as President will be to select a Premier from a number of candidates. The new President and his Premier will then name a Cabinet, which will function as a "transitional" government. Mitterrand has stated that this first Cabinet will consist of "those who have supported" him -which Socialists say excludes the Communists, whose backing did not come until the second round...
First, freedom of advertising, while often preverse in its execution, fulfills a vital function in any social democracy. In spite of the taint of money, advertising boils down to advocacy, and to deny its importance is "ludicrously and condescendingly" to defy liberal precets...
...WORST "fashion statement' is the plaid skirt, which asserts the wearer's class superiority and gender inferiority. Preppie culture has always been patriarchal. Thorstein Veblen, who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" at the turn of the century, contended that the leisure class woman's function was to display-her male keeper's wealth. "The high heel, the skirt...and the general disregard of the wearer's comfort which is an obvious feature of all civilized women's apparel" suggested to Veblen that "the woman is still in theory the economic dependent of the man." Despite changes since Veblen...
...people who come to the Carlyle," he says. "They come year after year, season after season, and it's a going-back for them, a way to relive special times of their lives. And I suppose that enabling them to do that is in the end the function of a saloon singer like...