Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Council members planning reorganization, announced Stephen A. Pohl '62, chairman of the reform group. In addition to the Deans, President Bunting of Radcliffe. Dean von Stade, and representatives of the Government and Social Relations Departments will appear before the committee to discuss changes in Council structure and its function in the community...
...Administrators will give their views on the role of a Council in the Harvard community. The government and social relations experts will then structure and function of the Council caused three Houses to withdraw their delegates...
Ready to Try. In dealing with the auto strike, Goldberg restricted himself to the Secretary of Labor's traditional function as a counselor. But in other labor disputes during his nine months in office, Goldberg has intervened more directly and forcefully than all his predecessors lumped together in the 48 years since labor became a Cabinet post. Using all the Administration's influence and all the experience gained during his years as labor's top lawyer and strategist, Goldberg has personally negotiated and mediated in strikes that have crippled the nation's maritime industry, grounded most...
...many ancient peoples, the earliest treasures of China were recovered from tombs. As far back as the 11th century B.C., bronze vessels were deposited in the tombs of great men to serve the needs of the body that remained bound to the earth; there was no higher function for the artist than to turn out these ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves...
When M.I.T. commissioned him to do an auditorium, he not only rejected the International cube, but also Louis Sullivan's dictum of "form follows function." He put up an auditorium encased in a gleaming white three-cornered shell that could just as well have been an exhibition hall or a supermarket. For the chapel at M.I.T., his inspiration was the grottoes of Capri, which get their magic light from the sun bouncing...