Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others connected the presence of obscure courses with Harvard's function as a university. "The field has to be covered, knowledge has to be preserved and added to, and if you don't keep up with it you're outstripped....because the world is shrinking so fast it is incumbent upon a great university to be aware of what is going on in the world. Like Vietnam. Suddenly the U.S. was in a war with Vietnam, and we didn't know anything about it," Frye says...
...past 7 1/2 years I have used this space to tell you about the people behind the stories. I hoped to convey the excitement and dedication that have made TIME the pre-eminent magazine in the world. This page will continue to serve that function, but next week's issue will carry the signature of TIME's tenth and newest publisher: Richard B. Thomas...
...ending, I thought. But just as my friend resolved "the baldness issue," I began to find strands of hair deposited on my pillow each morning. "The tooth fairy gone amok?" I puzzled. But no. There was no such thing as the tooth fairy. My parents had always performed her function, and they had never left hair...
...Benares, India, is the brainchild of Harvard film professor Robert Gardner, considered by many to be the most important anthropological filmmakers of our time. The documentary has no subtitles, no musical soundtrack, no voice-over commentary--only the insistent din of a city at work, a city whose main function concerns the burial of the dead...
President Bok has countered these charges saying the ACSR is not primarily representative but rather serves an advisory function...