Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life's editors backed themselves into such spectacular and outrageous corners as lighting all of Yankee Stadium at night with flashbulbs while others settled for using photography as a appendage to special interest publications: TV took over the real mass journalism function in society. In any event, nobody except for historians and connoisseurs of photography seemed to care about the spirited photojournalistic documents (of Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Andre Kertesz; etc.) which were the backbone of Life or The Family...
...strike it could virtually shutdown Harvard--but the organizing drive among Cambridge clerical workers have just started. The Cambridge group will probably take a long time to get on its feet, but after it does it can work closely enough with the medical area group to be able to function practically as a single unit, well-attuned to the specific needs of members in different areas...
...essay of the book, "The Role of Science Fiction," attacks Graves head-on-. It is Bova's contention that the gap between science and literature is artificial. He feels Graves errs in his view of science and scientists for the layman; he feels science fiction, at its best, should function as a modern mythology...
General Education has ceased to function effectively. The framework set up for it in 1945 by the Harvard Committee's report, General Education in A Free Society [The Redbook], and modified in 1965 by the Doty Report, is no longer suited to existing intellectual, social and institutional conditions. No longer does General Education serve as the fundamental core curriculum that was originally intended. The broadly-based intellectual and "cultural experience that was available to students particularly freshmen and sophomores, twenty years ago is gone. And instead of being replaced by, an updated system adapted to the universally changing conditions (rising...
...General Education courses, frequently do not receive tenure and leave, taking their courses with them. In his letter to the Faculty last October, Dean Rosovsky cited important factors that have altered the needs of both faculty and students, among them the recent exponential growth of knowledge, the expanded research function of the university, and ever-increasing preprofessionalism amongst students...