Word: utilitarianism
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...coldest of the titans of his time, but he will perhaps have left the warmest legacy. "Architecture," he once said, "goes beyond utilitarian needs. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart. You do me good and I am happy and I say, 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters...
...inhabitant of the Towers, though not by choice. The best thing I can say about them is that they house some hundreds of students. This they do in a functional, utilitarian manner that would be perfectly acceptable at Florida State, but that is entirely amiss at Harvard...
...Leverett Towers constitute Harvard's contribution to low-cost housing: one thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows...
...Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded, practical, utilitarian faith-in this singleness of thought." In a mawkish conceit, he added: "Exactly as a little girl sets up a dollhouse for her favorite doll...
Among laymen, the arguments tend to be utilitarian. Psychology is nibbling at the fringes of the law to raise the question of whether any murderer can be classified as sane. But most debate turns on the question of whether capital punishment has a deterrent effect on crime. Many defenders of capital punishment tend to agree with James Pike, Protestant Episcopal bishop of California, that "the possibility of deterrence provides the only viable, moral justification" for the death penalty...