Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essence of the International Style, or the Modern Movement (the two phrases are almost synonymous by now), was its dogmatism. The years 1900 to 1930 bristle with formulas and coercive epigrams: "Form follows function," "The house is a machine for living in," and so forth. Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" was prefigured by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos' belief, published in Vienna in 1908, that ornament was crime: "We have outgrown ornament!" Loos exclaimed. "See, the time is nigh, freedom awaits us. Soon the streets of the City will glisten like white walls, like Zion, the holy...
MUCH AGONIZING has gone on recently about Radcliffe's place in the University and its relevance or irrelevance to undergraduate women. Many women here feel its presence in their lives only fleetingly; from time to time they are invited to parties at the President's house or to functions sponsored by the alumnae; asked where they go to school, they say, "Harvard." Radcliffe is perceived as powerless and timid in the defense of women's issues. Unfortunately, the confusions surrounding Radcliffe's complicated and shifting position with Harvard have obscured many of the real issues, and made it extremely difficult...
...fact, there seems little danger that such revisionists will be taken seriously. If they have any useful function it is to spark Wiesel into passages that recall Isaac Bashevis Singer's definition of Jews as "a people who can't sleep themselves and let nobody else sleep." While Elie Wiesel lives and writes, there will be no rest for the wicked, the uncaring or any one else...
Manners permit one to function with people one might otherwise despise. A useful adjunct to civilization...
...more flexible, variable meal plan would also entail certain coasts for the House system. By allowing any one group to opt out of a substantial number of meals, the overall function for which the Houses were first established--that of bringing together a group of students and tutors for frequent educational and social contacts--would undoubtedly be undermined. At present, most students meet other people in their House primarily by eating with them. If more students eat off-campus, a certain degree of House community and closeness would necessarily be sacrificed...