Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superstitious, but like many Americans- especially the young- I am Icery of the vast majority of policemen that I come in contact with. It is paradoxical that so many people actually fear that body of men whose primary function is to protect them. Perhaps this is because black demonstrators in Birmingham, black rioters in Watts and Newark, and student demonstrators in Chicago and in college administration buildings have discovered the uneasy feeling of being hit over the head by a billy club. Indeed, the estimation of policemen has been steadily declining among the young people in America, as is perhaps...
...more than 20% of the phones on an exchange are in use at the same time, the dial tone is delayed as calls stack up like planes over an airport. Planning ahead to avoid such overloads is the essence of efficiency and probably management's single most important function. The tangle in the New York telephone system today offers a case study in what happens when a company gets its number wrong...
...wears. Values are completely relative to him and his resulting inability to make choices causes his paralysis. His philosophical and practical relativism also prevents him from achieving any real relationships with the people he encounters despite the fact that he is perceptive and intelligent. Horner only manages to function through mytho-therapy, a practice recommended by the Doctor, through which he casts himself and those around him into two-dimensional roles with which he can react by conventional responses...
...sensitive to the ambiguities and contradictions of his character's personality. We see clearly Becket's greatness; at the same time we are permitted a glimpse into his madness. The four women of Canterbury play their roles with a vitality that does much to enhance the importance of their function within the play; unfortunately, however, the energy with which they weep and gnash their teeth sometimes has a way of obscuring the beauty of their lines...
...function of the orchestra is to provide a means whereby student composers at Harvard may have a chance to hear their works played. Last year the orchestra performed a piece of Gregory Biss, then a graduate student in the music department, and this year the orchestra played through The Bird of Paradise by Leonard Yehrman '71. On March 24, HRO will read a new piece by Faye Silberman, first year graduate in the music department. Another way that the orchestra serves the musical community is by giving students a chance to solo with an orchestra. Every year the orchestra holds...