Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bristles with vivid triumphs; staggers under the weight of expansive change; and, most of all, battles the gloomy veil of disappointment. This disappointment, in my mind, overwhelms almost all other memories because it seems to be consuming, steadily, the University's sports program. In effect, this disappointment is a function of the rest of the Harvard athletic program--it follows naturally from the victories and transformations that raise, in both participants and spectators, the hope of progress...
...President: "I see Ed Muskie as being a much stronger and more statesmanlike ... figure who will be a more evocative spokesman for our nation's foreign policy. I would prefer that Ed Muskie not be so personally involved in the details and negotiations with other nations." That function, said Carter, could be left to Deputy Secretary Warren Christopher. The President concluded: "There is one person in this nation responsible for the establishment of the carrying out of American foreign policy, and that is the President...
...benign protection of destiny. In classical myth such a role was played by Mercury, or Hermes as the Greeks called him; in Egyptian myth the part belonged to Thoth. After Ben is transported to that place where all good Jedi Knights go in Star Wars, Yoda takes over his function in The Empire...
...ministries of foreign affairs. Even if the National Security Adviser were a saint, he would be tempted to use his office's proximity to the President to compete with the State Department. Not even a President more capable of devising and imposing his own course than Jimmy Carter can function well with two senior advisers...
...architectural establishment. He has frequently deplored what he calls "architects' architecture" and admits no debt to the International Style of the Bauhaus. He uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects. His commitment is not to community or social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks...