Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Junk. Perhaps it has something to do with an obsession of Leni's that prefigures Au.'s method. As a girl in a convent school, Leni learned to worship the orderly function of her organs, and the instruction had the force of an epiphany. Later she undertook her life's work: reproducing, with a child's paintbox and brush, "a cross section of one layer" of a nun's retina-6,000,000 cones and 100 million tiny rods...
Lady Bird knows all too well the special function of work in this "new season" of her life. She recognizes it as an "antidote to grief" but knows also that its effectiveness cannot last. "The worst may yet be ahead for me. Somewhere down the road the sadness will come crushing down on me." Already, she acknowledges, "the sadness is all-consuming at times...
Early this year, in a letter to a publisher, Green distilled some of his personal philosophy: "If you like what you're doing," he wrote, "and so long as you can physically and mentally function, my credo long has been that I'd rather wear out than rust out." Last week, shortly after writing his Page One story, Abel Green died of a heart attack at 72-doing what he liked...
...registered Democrat who voted for Senator George S. McGovern (D.-S.D.) in the 1972 presidential election, said that he is satisfied with guidelines Richardson releasted that define the prosecutor's function...
...body and mind. His ideas on sex and eroticism challenged and frightened the Freudian orthodoxy. Unlike Freud, Reich believed that mankind could build its civilizations without discontent. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and Marxism and made enemies on both sides. He postulated far-reaching theories on the nature and function of orgasm and suffered in the Victorian backlash...