Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with change. For one thing, the labor movement is middle-aged and increasingly middleclass, powerful and sometimes arrogant, but without the lean, hungry and imaginative leaders of the past. For another, unions are faced with a new industrial revolution in automation, which promises to alter the very role and function of human labor...
...wrote: "The Haitians liked him so well that they elected him President for life. This was not a spurious, rigged election. He could call one tomorrow and win easily." Bishop was equally impressed by the dictator's secret police, the tonton macoute: They "comprise a personal force whose function is to keep President Duvalier acquainted with the true temper of the people...
Cities on Stilts. It was a dictum much misunderstood. Le Corbusier loved the machine not for its function but for its economy of form. He preferred American grain elevators to Gothic cathedrals, but only because they were trim manifestations of a man-made world long removed from the saintly preoccupations of the medieval age. He ridiculed the beaux-arts esthetic that caused designers to disguise railway stations as Roman temples and believed that art nouveau's attempt to doll up houses with plantlike curlicues was a sham...
...there should be "watchful vigilance," lest the church become "just another social agency." The Rev. Dean Kelley of the National Council of Churches also worries that U.S. Christianity may become so involved in social projects that it runs the risk of becoming just another client of government. "The greatest function of the modern church," he says, "is that of focusing moral power, not exercising public administration...
Growing Appetite. The regionals serve as a marketplace for shares of companies too small or local to be listed on the bigger exchanges, but the function is declining. Today only 739 stocks are traded exclusively on regional exchanges v. 1,300 in 1940. Their main role has changed to being that of a secondary market for shares traded on the New York and American boards, whose prices they closely follow. The surge in the price of seats reflects the growing appetite among member firms of the New York Stock Exchange to join the regional exchanges-notably the six largest that...