Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blundering, misinformed, and poorly organized, the Student Council muffed an excellent change to perform a really important function. Europe's need for food filled is desperate and there is no earthly reason why Harvard cannot contribute both grain and money. The problem demanded speed and keen insight; the Council treated it in a sluggish and obtuse fashion. Last year's Council committee raised $25,000 for European relief in two quick door-to-door drives. As of today, the two groups are exactly $25,000 apart...
...successfully transplanted from man to other animals. Does that mean that they are one & the same? Dr. Greene suspects that they may be; the only difference between cancerous and embryonic tissue that he has discovered is that embryonic tissue grows up and "differentiates," i.e., acquires a special function. It is possible, he suggests, that cancer is merely arrested embryonic tissue...
...show were abstractions which reflected his growing interest in geometry (he used a ruler and divider in planning them). "Abstractions for abstraction's sake," he still insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
...Young Man, Follow the Sea," a difficult and talky story by Bynum Green Jr., the young man says, "Anyway, Joyce still forces his critics to perform their proper function. He demands that they understand completely his process of creation before they can understand his works." Well, although Green explains in a footnote that he composed his story in seven nights, and also gives thanks to various helpers, (e.g., "Merei Maria"), this critic professes to understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream...
...been the function of the Committee on Educational Policy, of which the Provost is chairman, to go over the courses submitted by the various departments, to recommend changes, and finally to submit the embryo catalogue to the entire Faculty for approval. This year the Committee should examine the prospective catalogue not only in terms of the courses it will announce, but also in terms of what it will say about those courses...