Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Which is like getting 300 original manuscripts from a front-ranking author. Though the plasters could be used to turn out more and more bronzes, that is not the museum's function or intention. Properly cared for, a plaster will last indefinitely in a dry climate like Israel...
...Miss America," he writes, "stands in a long line of queens going back to Isis, Ceres and Aphrodite. Everything from the elaborate sexual taboos surrounding her person to the symbolic gifts at her coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just as much a 'religious' one as that served by Cybele in hers." Just as the Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer...
...32nd birthday. Labeling the gift a "private matter," White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was equally reticent about the ensuing family celebration. When buttonholed on whether the birthday cake was bought or donated, Salinger-still slightly burned by the fallout over Jackie's last major social function, at Mount Vernon-smoothly replied: "It was baked...
Today two colonies still function after a fashion. At Canterbury, N.H. (founded in 1792), eleven old "sisters" live in the remaining 25 of the original 38 buildings where once 400 men and women worked and danced and sang. And at the Sabbathday Lake Colony near Portland, Me., lives the last male Shaker in the world-Elder Delmar C. Wilson, 88, with 13 "sisters...
...enforce the street's reliance on mutual trust, however, there is an extraordinary extralegal judicial system maintained by the two diamond clubs that function as West 47th Street's stock exchanges or trading centers. Arbitration panels meet as needed to settle disputes between traders. If a man is found to be dishonest, he can be expelled from the club, cannot use the facilities of any other diamond club in the world. Says one top diamond man: "That's the biggest motive a fellow has for behaving himself...