Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...deft touch to his campaign speeches, and by inauguration day, he was a member of the innermost Truman Circle. When Truman became President, he rewarded Allen with a job as director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., but after a year Allen quit. He realized that his best political function was in an offstage capacity, and besides, he had growing private business interests of his own (today he is on the boards of more than 30 companies, is an acknowledged expert in company reorganizations and mergers...
...schools. He believes that percentile grades are "relative hogwash," and that essay exams are irreplaceable. "The fact that not one complete sentence (or paragraph) has to be composed either in the Verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test or in the Achievement Test in English composition has destroyed the function of the old entrance examination that served as a national unifying force in the teaching of reading and writing...
...resplendent creature, the dandy (whom the author distinguishes from the mere fop by the social forces that created him). Thomas Carlyle wrote unsympathetically that a dandy is "a Man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes." He ignored the dandy's first function-to prove, merely by being himself, the unbridgeable distance between the elite and "the great unwashed" (a phrase used by dandified Politician-Author Edward Bul-wer-Lytton to describe literary critics...
Reynolds' Gray is proudest of a much-abused, often misused concept known as teamwork. He freely delegates authority ("Confidence is important"), but makes certain that everyone knows precisely what is expected of him. He runs the company through seven top committees, headed by directors responsible for every function from buying tobacco leaf to setting up drugstore displays. Unhappy about the way one department was running, Gray last year walked up to its head, said softly that something had to be done, concluded: "I'll see you in six months." Exactly six months later, Gray checked up. The matter had been...
...controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark), the most sophisticated and evolutional-ly the newest part of the brain. Dr. Himwich reported...