Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otherwise, unless he has to appear at a political function, he almost always stays home with Son Patrick, 12. Daughter Kara, 19, is a sophomore at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.; Son Edward Jr., 18, is a freshman at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn...
...Athletics. Rather it is the recreational facility for North, South, and Currier Houses, to be used by the House members and their guests. This was the original intent of the planners, and donors contributed money with this purpose in mind. In this respect, the facility will serve the same function for residents of these Houses as the Adams House pool does for Adams residents or the Dunster squash courts do for Dunster residents. The sole difference is that, instead of building a basketball court in South House, squash courts in North, and a tennis court in Currier, the separate facilities...
...other end of town, Sissela Bok greeted the hordes in place of her husband, who was attending a University function...
Podhoretz suggests that a responsible intellectual is one who teaches us to distrust other intellectuals' ideas, and an irresponsible intellectual is one who doesn't know the limits of his function--who actually wants his ideas directly translated into a legislative program. He maintains that the intellectual's goal is ideally not the transformation of society but rather the "deepening of society's sense of things...the refinement of its consciousness, the enhancement of its cultural life...
...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...