Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...died in 1952 at 81, was a mathematical prodigy and the first woman to get an M.D. at the University of Rome. Physician Montessori became an educator by salvaging feeble-minded children. By giving them things to touch and twist with their hands, she got their brains to function responsively. Soon the Dottoressa had supposedly moronic pupils outstripping normal children on public school examinations...
...Free Diet. The schools' function is to train the men entrusted with the power plants aboard nuclear subs and ships-about half the crew on a sub-and the training is aimed strictly at making sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around...
...Radcliffe Student Government Association will also undergo extensive changes next year, Emily R. Otis '62, President of the SGA, announced yesterday. Members are currently researching the problem of SGA's function in relation to the new House system, she said, urging undergaduates to present suggestions for consideration at the semi-annual Cedar Hill Conference next September...
...afternoon session of the 15th rural Program Alumnae Conference, panel debated the question, "Revived: That the hidden persuaders have a legitimate and necessary function in our society...
...Louis Sullivan had long since pioneered the skyscraper, and his famous "Form follows function" was the slogan of a new "democratic architecture" that wanted to do away with classic façades, which had nothing to do with a modern building's purpose. His young associate, Frank Lloyd Wright, was already famous for low-slung geometric prairie houses that were so carefully wedded to the landscape that building and nature seemed one. In Germany, 28-year-old Walter Gropius, freshly graduated from Peter Behrens' studio, had put up his steel-and-glass Fagus factory, which was the most...