Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...current publisher and general manager, Wil Stevens, offered the following comments on the HarBus: "I can't find my total universe in the HarBus at all. I don't think it serves any major function for me. I've never thought about how it could be improved because it's not an ongoing thing for me. That's a waste of time to think about...
...commercial or on a stage, don't necessarily read "black," because there's nothing "racial" or "Negroid" (and I mean those words in the derogatory sense) in my voice unless I choose it to be there. It makes it even more difficult for me to function than Godfrey Cambridge, because if you use him for a commercial, no one can question that you're using a black man for your product. But if you use me, you run the risk of someone thinking, maybe he's Puerto Rican, or maybe he's black, or just what...
Ecology is often called the "subversive science." Only 70 years old, it avoids the narrow specialization of other sciences?and thus appeals to generalists, including people with a religious sense. Ecology is the systems approach to nature, the study of how living organisms and the nonliving environment function together as a whole or ecosystem. The word ecology (derived from the Greek root oikos, meaning "house") is often used in ways that suggest an attitude rather than a discipline. Anthropologists and psychiatrists have adapted it to their work. Poet Allen Ginsberg declaims it like a revolutionary slogan. But few yet grasp...
...organization which would efficiently deal with undergraduate issues. From this fund raising effort, we raised approximately $4,000, to be used as we saw fit. This allowed us to pay back bills which the Council had accrued and provide some of the essentials which any organization needs to function properly...
Double Objective. The Opies have discovered two objectives in all unorganized play. One is social. "A game produces a structure within which a child is able to have relations with his own tribe," says Peter Opie. "It is an essential function through which a new arrival will find his place...