Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London News once replied: "The chef does not go out with his gun to shoot the pheasant. He does not gather the strawberries and pick the peas. But he knows where the best are to be found and he can combine [them] into a perfect meal. That is the function of the editor...
...high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof and sides of a low tarpaulin stretched from four corner posts-a difficult and perhaps inefficient construction to handle in stone. As ARCHITECTURAL FORUM put it, the Assembly building "marked an architectural shift-from emphasis on 'function' and structural logic to emphasis on form and the logic...
...while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards, you see, is almost Myles Standout: Puritanism...
Probably the most interesting piece in this collection is the opening chapter by University Professor I. A. Richards. Discussing the lecture process, Richards declares. "Say something which will make people think, and you have fulfilled your function...
...proposal at its heart by questioning the need for a new Varsity Club. These critics wonder whether a new Clubhouse would be used enough more than the present one to warrant its construction. They feel the Houses, in which everyone cats, sleeps, and makes friends, fulfill the social function which the Varsity Club did in pre-Houses days of impersonal Yard dorm, and which Mr. Burr thought it might still...