Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear of what may be-these are the forces, some would say the demons, that are loose in the U.S. in 1968. The demons accompanied the Democrats to Chicago. A deeply divided party met amid paroxysms of violence in the city and obsessive security measures that surrounded a major function of U.S. democracy with the air of a police state. A bitter but rational argument about the Vietnamese war was traumatically translated into street battles between protesters and police. Nominees and other speakers spent valuable time condemning or justifying the conduct of Mayor Richard Daley's heavy-handed cops...
...conduct the Philharmonic, this age thing has changed. At that point, anyone in his 20s or 30s was just laughed at. It all begins much earlier now. There's something else. A conductor is no longer just a man who leads an orchestra. His job includes an educational function, a community leadership function, an institutional responsibility, the setting up of patterns and models that can be followed by other orchestras, and it involves a very complicated set of relationships with the members of your orchestra and to orchestras which one guest-conducts...
Whether by hunting or herding or harvesting, a basic tribal function is subsistence in a harsh environment. As relatively powerless people, tribesmen believe in magic, usually hate outsiders and respect any kinsman who survives long enough to grow...
...value of "green belts" that girdle some cities. On planners' maps, green belts look wonderful. In reality, says Whyte, they have never served to contain a city's growth or to afford useful green space for its people. If open space just sits there without a positive function such as public park, golf course, or high-grade farm, Whyte says, it will surely be lost to a competitive good cause, like housing. In fact, the true theme of The Last Landscape is contained in Whyte's pithy phrase about open land: "Use it or lose...
...least 24 hours later with no change." On its face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head wounds, said Neurosurgeon William Sweet, a member of the committee, the brain damage would be the dominant consideration. Then the physician might decide, long before 24 hours had elapsed, that all hope was gone...