Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring, deadly book"). When they can find the time, most of the cultists paint, whether they...
Pepper attacked the government for repudiating the United Nations with its plans for Greece and Turkey. "The United States should take the lead in saving the U. N. and help it function as it was intended. The U.N. can handle the affair, but only if we are willing," Pepper declared...
...steel wedges, spent the better part of five days methodically hacking the tops off the hallowed stairways and replacing them with special non-skid material. This cement material may eventually wear down, but it will never become slippery. The men were employed by a construction company whose sole function is the replacing of dangerous stairways with non-skid treads...
...essence: in history, time is a function of space; whereas all Europe lives roughly in the 20th Century, in Peru the coast is 20th, the Indian highlands 16th, the Amazon basin still prehistoric. The main conclusion: European theories cannot be applied mechanically to America, as the Marxists vainly think...
...text of the leaflet dissuaded several Red Cross members from attending the function and reportedly disrupted business proceedings inside the Club...