Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sociologists stress the function of clothes as uniforms by which each individual indicates his level in a structured society. This hangs on today in terms such as "white collar" and "blue collar," though technology is rapidly making them obsolete. The machine, argue some, is promoting democracy by blurring the difference between rich and poor, since only a knowing eye can detect the difference between a Dior original and a copy. In fact, on a good-looking poor girl, the copy often looks better than the original on a rich matron. Some sociologists also find hope for international peace and understanding...
Just about the only important French printed matter that Hachette does not distribute is the telephone book. The company moves all but two of Paris' 26 daily newspapers, 612 French magazines, every newspaper and magazine exported to France from other countries. But this function, conducted under the impressive title of Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne, is only a sideline. Hachette is far bigger and far more pervasive than that...
Composed of 15 members from 15 different nations, the court has no troops, no policemen, no marshals to enforce its decisions. It is set up to judge disputes between nations, but it can function only if the litigants are willing to accept its jurisdiction. Under the Connally Amendment (named after Tom Connally, former U.S. Senator from Texas), the U.S. reserves the right to determine whether it will let any case involving the U.S. be taken before the World Court. Yet the court wields great moral authority...
...works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations of Modern...
...bosses talk to office boys ("Will power works miracles!"), pick up some wisdom at the water cooler ("Never trust a man with two nostrils"), peer into his first pay envelope, start a little office romance (Loredana Detto), survive a big office party, inspect a dozen dismal, petty employees who function as industrial implements but do not live...