Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although giving financial aid is its chief function, the Harvard-Yenching Institute also attempts other methods of assistance. Every year fourteen professors from East Asian universities are brought to Harvard for a year or more of study, Reischauer noted...
There is a difference between bitterness and cynicism. Cynicism restricts itself to the rejection of certain values; its laughter is limited by the negative function of this rejection. The art of Shelagh Delaney, however, is bitter in that it confronts the present grimness of life while bearing the promise of a distant rejoicing. A Taste of Honey goes on to consider the world to which our generation must give birth...
...National Council was first assembled ten years ago, and glued together out of pieces very different in shape and size and function ... I feel that the most important accomplishment of these first years may well have been that the council has stayed together-that the glue has had a chance to set. At the same time it is true-both with the foot stool and with the National Council-that there comes a time when the clamps must be taken off and we must have the courage to put the instrument to the full use for which it was fashioned...
...this is offensive, we must bear in mind that it is both the price and the benefit of a democratic culture. It is the sting and the pleasure of a society in which art is allowed the function of social commentary. And as a performer, Mr. Seeger has an adroit way of putting an audience at ease about his politics. "I used to send my children to sleep by singing them lullabies," he said jokingly, "but when they reached the age of three, they discovered that lullabies were parents' propaganda...
...third issue is intrinsic function. "Needs and motives have means of determining the model." Bruner declared...