Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...function of art to relieve those without faith from their boredom...
...research for nucleonics at Washington's Naval Research Laboratory. Laboratory construction will start early this fall. Eventually, Quesada hopes to make back 80% of the $10 million total cost to Lockheed, but he will never try to make his new laboratory show a profit. Says Quesada: "Scientists function best when they know that they can work without dictation and develop theories irrespective of military contracts. We hope that through our ability to be original we will then be able to translate a military requirement into a military weapon...
...learned that "any great teacher tries to teach you the why of things-not just chords, but 'why' chords. He teaches you how to extend music in time.'' Later, Kirchner studied with Ernest Bloch, learning from the noted composer "to respect the use, the real function, of materials." His next teacher was Roger Sessions, with whom Kirchner worked in 1942 and again after the war. Sessions, Kirchner believes, is America's greatest composer, and he also has "an amazing ability to see talent. He is a man of great intelligence." "Writing Is Funny." Kirchner...
...main function, Mrs. Robinson keeps the tutorial records for all students who concentrate in any of these three fields-a group which last year numbered approximately 1,500, or nearly 40 percent of the whole Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate body. Each spring she assigns all sophomores in these fields to appropriate tutors; she prepares the records of more than 200 honors candidates in the departments each year, to determine whether they will graduate summa, magna, cum, or sine; she makes sure that somebody reads and marks all the bluebooks that are turned in from general examinations in the fields...
...fact that her job exists at all. For the Division of History, Government, and Economics, of which she is still secretary, became essentially non-existent several years ago when it was broken up into separate fields. Since that time, the three departments have dropped their common tutorial function, have developed different formulas for determining honors, and have stopped giving correlation examinations to honors candidates. Also, since Taylor's period of service there has been no joint chairman for History, Government, and Economics...