Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Industry's emphasis on human values has also been prompted by self-interest. Says Banker Smith: "In the 19205 most business leaders stubbornly refused to recognize the nature of the consumer function in the economy. Then the emphasis was: 'Sales means jobs.' Today the situation is reversed...
...Hungary, Nehru explained to a Congress Party meeting in Calcutta, is an internal affair, civil conflicts on a rather large scale. "Much of the trouble occurred after Rus sian troops were withdrawn ... It was at this stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without any comment. The Soviet forces thereupon...
...inclusive center would, moreover, probably lead to the Student Council's occupying the executive suite. As a sounding board for student opinion and a research organization, the Council performs a useful function. As the commandant of a "center," the Council would injure the free-workings of every organization which came within intercommunicating range of the president. Whether or not the present Council considers this desirable, the good possibility remains that a new concrete center might prove a vault for healty undergraduate activities...
...Buffalo's Guaranty (now Prudential) Building (left), finished in 1895 at the peak of Sullivan's powers, just before his partnership with Adler broke up. In designing it Sullivan broke away from the neoclassic-temple design that obsessed his contemporaries. Following his own maxim, "form follows function," he created instead a building that clearly expressed its own purpose: a foundation of ground display shops, a center block of identical office floors and a crowning attic with a handsome cornice...
Imperative Emotion. But for Sullivan, "function" was not bare-boned utilitarianism. Once the problem is analyzed, he insisted, "We must heed the imperative voice of emotion." This meant exalting the loftiness of the building as "the very open organ-tone of its appeal." For Sullivan, the organ-tone required its grace notes as well: the wrought-iron and terracotta decoration he lavished on his buildings, inside and out (opposite...