Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey won election to the Senate that year, and no sooner had he been sworn in than he rose to lace into his Senate colleagues. "What people want," he cried, "is for the Senate to function! Sometimes I think we become so cozy-we feel so secure in our six-year term-that we forget that the people want things done...
Mostly, designers stuck to the rule of form following function. Tables, chairs, bookcases took a stripped-down, right-angular appearance supposed to defeat the Victorian furbelows that used to defy efficient cleaning. But-perhaps because vacuum cleaners are better than they used to be-the latest in functional form has found new curves to swing by (see color pages...
...beauty. The very nature of the barriers that man seeks to cross makes them some of the loveliest spots on the globe-gorges, bays, broad rivers, mountain valleys, the approaches to towering cities. By necessity, bridges are the purest sort of expression of the architectural concept of form following function. A steel-arch bridge over a deep canyon cannot help completing the frame of a picture of classic beauty: rushing waters below, soaring steel above, and all framing the natural art of rock shaped by wind and water...
...general function of the office is to study and evaluate the effectiveness of the federal law system...
Bailey outlined his plans before these city officials, and said that the most important function of such a committee would be to serve as a liaison between the police and the citizens of Cambridge...