Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study would only give the diagrammatic relation of man to man and department to subdivision. It would not, for instance, lend itself to an accurate appraisal of Conant's utility as talent scout and supervisor of this talent in the wide area taken in by the Manhattan District, a function on which Conant places much emphasis...
...Elson's only assistant at U.N. in The Bronx is Visson-but he has a very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...
Tangible Reminder. This week, in Ottawa, he would be sworn in. He would have one function: as the personal representative of the King, he would serve as a tangible reminder of the British Crown. But he would do little more. For Canada, once sternly ruled from London (until 1878 Canadians could not even hang their own criminals), has all but crawled out of its uncomfortable colonial...
Foundations of Multiple Management are three elective employe bodies: a junior board of directors, a factory board, and a sales and advertising board. Their function is to feed ideas to the senior (stockholders') board. In a five-year period, 2,109 such ideas were adopted, among them the Olde English theme for advertising: only six were scrapped. This creative drive, President McCormick soberly believes, pulled his company out of the red, has kept it going ever since...
...with exciting experiments, the most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures or on the modern...