Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power of rationalism to destroy, brought out by Hurkan and Tillich, has awakened in the editors grave doubts about intellectual activity and the function of the University. They claim the University has no real commitment "to the demands of the creative act" and that by having no particular point of view, or rather by allowing so many, what is created becomes no more important than what destroys it. Thus i.e. is not merely an attempt to formulate another point of view or to criticize, but an attempt towards an integrated artistic and scientific approach to the "new reality" created...
...general conditions at the Jan. 1954 public hearing and struck it from the record. The defense had asked Kamin and another witness about the crowd in the hearing room, and the presence of bright television lights. Aldrich held the testimony failed to prove that the conditions affected Kamin's "function as a normal witness...
Three centuries of industrial progress have wrought equally great changes in the outlook of Boston's publishing houses. Publishing has become a function of the business community where it was an arm of the church. Despite this evolution, its original seriousness of purpose reappears in modern guise. Book publishing began in Boston as an expression of this curiosity, but spiraling production costs have since forced the editor to tailor his product to financial considerations. Seldom will he issue what he knows will lose money; he would prefer to throw his resources behind a book with one virtue--that people will...
...spirited performance of Bach's Suite #3 opened the second season of the Bach Society Orchestra Sunday night. started last year by the zeal of conductor Michael Greenebaum '55 and the sponsoring Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club, the orchestra's first function has been to present Bach's cantatas, suites, and concerti in capable performances. On Sunday night guest conductor Landon Young '58 successfully avoided the two major pitfalls which face the conductor of Bach: the performance was neither Romantic nor pedantic in approach, although it did lack polish...
Another equally important function of the orchestra is the presentation of modern and often local compositions. Under Greenebaum's direction the orchestra gave a taut, electrifying performance of Howard Swanson's Short Symphony. Swanson has written a difficult, powerful work of almost flaming intensity, within a compact three movement structure. One of his favorite effect is to bring the orchestra in a slow cresendo to a fortissimo, then follow immediately with a quiet passage in the winds, without ever abandoning his driving tension. The orchestra was exciting tonally and always under Greenebaumn's tight control...