Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Limbo the Director General of Railroads (William Gibbs McAdoo's Wartime office, its onetime payroll of 2.000,000, now down to one clerk), the War Finance Corp., National Bituminous Coal Commission (its function to Interior...
...Chief function of the Pops concerts is to provide music for the fun of it, and last evening's Harvard night was an outstanding success from that point of view. The program was for the most part clever, rhythmical music entirely pleasant to listen to. The Borodin "Polevetskian Dances," the Cimarossa and the Gilbert and Sullivan choruses were especially effective. There was a strikingly small amount of froth on the program, in fact, the finale from Piston's "Suite for Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This...
...only useful when it can become assimilated into the daily life of a person, when it can be taken from its silver platter and caten without the aid of knife and fork. And the only way in which any work of art is able to fulfill its function in society (and it does have a function) is by being placed where people gather to sit naturally, smoke, and talk in a normal, not a hushed, tone of voice. By introducing it to more familiar and pleasant surroundings it is not meant, however, the people should lounge around and "absorb...
Hays is most interested in our advance towards a socialism, achieved not by sudden revolution, but slow realization of its practicality. "Socialism in just democracy--an extension of government function made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public...
...chief purpose of the author is to describe and discuss the function of the magazine as a medium or a genuinely democratic literature and as an immediate expression of the interests of the nation, its politics, amusements, fashions, rages and crazes, economics and education...