Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera follows them in surrealistic pandemonium aboard everything from unicycles to epicycles. The show ranks 53rd in the Nielsens, but it has 32% of the audience in its time spot and is getting stronger by the week. All the same, the surest sign that the Monkee gland will function comes not from TV or records but from the promotion department. The inevitable flood of Monkee merchandise, from guitars to comic books and Monkee pants (of which J. C. Penney alone has ordered $670,000 worth), will gross $20 million this year...
Aaron, like Daniel Seltzer today, was the partisan of the undergraduates. But his youth and consequent lack of influence made it impossible for him to function effectively with the faculty; his connection to Loeb officialdom put him out of favor with undergraduates as well. Aaron frequently offered unsolicited advice and was forcibly ejected from at least one Loeb rehearsal to which he came uninvited...
...kidneys showing that Americans at birth have a negligible amount of cadmium stored there, that the amount of the metal increases gradually with age and reaches its highest levels in patients with high blood pressure of unknown origin. He did not have to remind his medical audience that kidney function is important in regulating blood pressure, and that many cases of high blood pressure are clearly associated with kidney disorders...
...commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art demonstrates, lies in subordinating the precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that is carefully designed to be useless echoes the whimper or many a cog: 'What's the use?" Perhaps Rickey's nonfunctional machines show that out of tiny cogs...
Most of the upperclassmen see their function as a passive one. After introducing themselves to a group of 20 freshmen, they have left it, by and large, up to the freshmen to take the initiative in getting together...