Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baths also function is clubs that offer relief from the straight world and as homes away from home for travelers. The Club Baths chain has branches in 32 cites. Some baths have live entertainment: the Man's Country bathhouse in Chicago recently featured Sally Rand, and Bette Midler began her career and won her gay following by singing at the Continental Baths in Manhattan. The Continental is currently shunned by the In set of trendmakers, who patronize Everhart's. Most baths have TV rooms and serve food. Says gay Writer Arthur Bell: "It's like going into a womb?...
Such attempts seem to be going out of fashion. The emphasis now is on helping troubled homosexuals to function well as gays. A number of clinics have sprung up for that purpose. Homosexual "marriage" counseling, for example, addresses itself to problems such as which partner should be dominant in the relationship...
...very measure could regulate a calculus of utility and the allocation of energies. It was a view that, in its own way, was radically new. As Lewis Mumford observed, "The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." After consulting Gulliver on the function of his watch, the Lilliputians came to the conclusion that...
...average parental income of students here is sky-high, and the University's Governing Boards, if not its faculty, are still populated by the heirs to America's oldest East-coast fortunes. In that sense Harvard's real function is to train the children of the powerful to take the power themselves, so as to keep it in the family. The reason Harvard graduates have has such a profound influence on America--five of them have been U.S. presidents, countless others presidents of corporations--is not so much their innate talent as their good luck at being born...
...growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...