Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the regular counselors are sociologists or psychologists with a great deal of experience of listening to students' problems. In fact, active listening is probably the chief function of the counselor. Students attending the hour-long sessions hoping to be spoon-fed from a little package of Wisdom to tide them throught the week are liable to be disappointed. Counselors offer no pat answers to such questions as "How can I keep up in my studies?" simply because there aren...
With this loss of a monopoly over knowledge, Brewster said, the most important function of a university will be to provide a climate where "20 years of unbroken competition for nothing worthier than test scores" is not allowed "to dampen all aspiration, intellectual as well as active," and "where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...
...When its utilitarian function reaches optimum refinement," art critic and historian Sir Herbert Read said last night. "Then its form begins to react to spiritual needs...
...progressive refinement of artifacts, Sir Herbert outlined their evolutionary sequence in terms of refinement to maximum efficiency, and then further refinement to form. When this occurs, as in the case of a tool becoming a ceremonial object (for example, the ax becoming a mace), form is divorced from function, and thus freed to develop on the laws and principles called esthetics...
...crystals of a chalky substance composed mainly of calcium carbonate, no bigger than grains of fine sand. In the space age, physiologists are learning much more about these otoliths (ear stones), which respond to forces of gravity or acceleration. Now otolith mechanisms are known to have an im portant function. The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man's position or posture is changing because of a turning motion. But it is the utricle that responds to acceleration, and the saccule to deceleration...