Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...POETS and critics of approved standing now function as teachers in colleges and universities throughout the land, and 'the summer writing conference' has rapidly developed into an educational phenomenon . . . There is no doubt that the stiffening mark of writing learned by rule . . . has begun to show up in the work of young men and women who, in the United States, have passed through English Departments. A kind of graduate-school poetry has come into being: well written, beautifully organized, and nicely centred at some 'norm' of excellence, but at the same time, dead, dry and without...
...Mather is a devoted public educator who has many more important subjects of concern than his popularity among students. He regrets that he must spent 40 percent of his time attending state hearings and meetings in Boston, but regards this function as necessary for philosophical as well as economical reasons, since "the University administration thereby acts as a foil to keep the Legislature out of educational policy." Although a public educator by choice, he received his Ph.D. at privately-endowed Princeton and emphasizes that he has "no bone to pick with private education"; his aim is merely to provide...
Seraphim, according to Holy Writ, are members of a high angelic order who function as messengers of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Isaiah's vision they had three sets of wings, the better to aid them in their flights through space and eternity. and they traveled with the speed of light. On earth last week, a sort of human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level...
Horatio Alger stories are now considered corny because they are irrelevant. Their function of training the young for the drive toward goals on the frontier of work has been replaced by the mass-media effort to "train the young for the frontiers of consumption-to tell the difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola . . . We may mark the change by citing an old nursery rhyme...
...Saturday. Of course, the fact that the young ladies neither requested nor received the money made the mass tryst respectable as the Union which housed it. Further, since the Crimson Key both sponsored the dance and collected the entrance fee, and since it is the Key's periodic function to Do Good, the fifty cents is practically a charitable donation...