Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publisher of Scientific American charged that one-quarter of our industrial output is dumped into "the sink of armament," not because of true military but because it serves the same economic function of pump-priming as does government investment--"to certify additional workers with paychecks" to consume surplus production, without itself adding to the over-abundance of goods...
...have no doubt that churches and denominations can be too small to function effectively in the world. I am just as sure that they can be too big, and I suggest that 20 million members may be too big,"*says Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles. "If I could cast one vote which would make all Christians Methodists, I would not cast the vote...
...says flatly: "Architecturally, the general standard is lower than anywhere else in the world." Says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art: "The bulk of the commercial buildings is only packaged space. About all that can be said of them is that they function mechanically...
From the Tower of Babel to the railroad roundhouse, men have always felt an almost romantic affection for circular buildings. Now, newly appreciated for form and function, round buildings are rising all over the U.S. and filling a variety of needs...
...carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated it better than his wife." A unique marriage of roundness to function is the Pan American World Air ways terminal building at New York's Idlewild airport. A roundhouse for the jet age, its giant umbrella roof can shelter eight airliners at once as they nuzzle up to take on passengers. It successfully does away with the greatest inconvenience of modern...