Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of artistic commitment and social responsibility. He feels that the world is changing too fast to keep up with ("and I'm not getting any younger"). And he believes that motion picture animation is a medium particularly well suited for interpreting scientific developments in human terms--a function, he feels, that becomes ever more vital in an age of automation and nuclear power...
...university town's 100,000 inhabitants vociferously protested the choice. For the Bundesdorf, or "federal village," as it is condescendingly called elsewhere in Germany, is a Peter Pan among cities. It never wanted to grow up into a capital, stubbornly resists every government scheme to make it function like one, and does its best to ignore the 200,000 additional citizens who have settled in Bonn itself and a score of towns and villages that cluster around it. "Bonn," says Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, "is not a metropolis. It's an a-polis, a non-city...
...Natural Sciences which the Redbook proposed had been replaced largely by courses which taught science per se. One effect the Doty Report will have will be to perform for the Social Sciences and Humanities (which have come along way from the monolithic pattern proposed by the Redbook) the legitimizing function which the Bruner Report accomplished for the Natural Sciences. The report does this, first, by maintaining that, in addition to ingraining in Harvard freshmen the understanding of the Western tradition which the Redbook believed important, Gen Ed should show a student the place, in the whole field of knowledge...
Most zoos, says Everly, suffer from lack of long-range planning, plus ignorance on the part of architects, who have a tendency to treat the buildings as monuments, making them too big, impossible to heat, and badly ventilated. Then, too, the modern conception of a zoo's function is quite different from what it was 50 years ago, when the main idea was to display curious creatures. Today the emphasis is on presenting a representative selection of the world's animals in surroundings that simulate their native environments...
...almost three years, the HCUA has been excusing its impotence and ignoring Administration snubs by trumpeting about the few minor concessions it has obtained from various officials, and by consoling itself that it takes time or the College bureaucracy to understand the function of the Council. As a former officer of the HCUA, I have found that officials of the College and University are only too happy to contact the HCUA whenever there is a project for which they desire student support, but many of these same officials are less interested in the HCUA when they have to consider student...