Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the trouble is in the nature of the beast. The academic president who emerges from Dodd's study is a very sterile being. He has functions and duties, not personality and ideas. And so the university president, straight-jacketed by his far-reaching responsibility and by constant faculty pressures, is colorless. Dodds talks only parenthetically about the joys of the office, about communicating with people, about activating ideas, about the myriad parts of the presidential personality and potential that fall under no specific "function." Dodds' president does not look forward to impending crises with gusto or glee; he does...
...cathedral's chapels have specific roles in both design and function. The Chapel of Unity, across the nave from the baptistry window, has a floor of intricately designed marble mosaic by Sweden's Einar Forseth and a ceiling arched to the shape of a Crusader's tent. To Spence, it is the heart of the cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel...
Keel v. Hull. Last week, at Marblehead, Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal...
Just as the exterior symbolized to Saarinen "the excitement of the trip," so the interior suggests the constant flow of human traffic. To Saarinen. form did not merely follow function-it was also meant to lift the spirit: "Architecture is not just to fulfill man's need for shelter, but also to fulfill man's belief in the nobility of his existence on earth...
...thinned down and shortened to cut drag at high speed. And since thinner, shorter wings have less lift, the new fast planes needed longer runs to get them off the ground. When airplane speeds were boosted by jet engines, designers resorted to swept-back wings, which function better up near and above the speed of sound...