Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast between the Bobby Kennedy function and the glittering Coventry into which Gwen and Perle found themselves was perfect evidence of the fact that the old order of Washington society has changed, giving way to the New Frontier's New Society...
...week said that Moss had suffered a "severe bruising of the right side of the brain," and had a marked weakness on the left side of his body. "Recovery from the brain damage is likely to be a slow process, and there is a possibility that full recovery of function in the left arm and leg will not take place." What it meant was clear: only a slim chance remained to repair the shattered pieces of Moss's brilliant racing career...
Under a brown and white tent in the museum's statue-populated backyard is a collection of 115 pieces of sports equipment, a glistening trove of varnished wood, polished steel and glowing leather. All the objects were selected by the museum's Arthur Drexler, who believes that function and designer's taste combine to make a piece of sports equipment modern art. After the objects were selected, the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approved their performance qualities...
Among the items chosen for function, taste and performance: > Fishing reels whose every part has a function, whose polished movements are worthy of Swiss watches, whose beauty is evocative of fine silverware...
Indeed, conventional society may profit from this last characteristic of the Creep--Flynt's favorite example of a Creep who made good is Emily Dickenson. And since the Creep can function in our "human" world, it is Flynt's final plea that humans extend tolerance to the Creep...