Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Samaras traces back his fascination with rooms to youthful visits to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, where he used to stand entranced in the period rooms. "There was no reference to today," he recalls. "You were overwhelmed, even seduced, into a past age." His mirror rooms fulfill a similar function today by allowing the viewer to experience weightlessness and the expanding universe of tomorrow. Red Grooms traces back the genesis of his Chicago to his boyhood efforts in Nashville to duplicate the Ringling Bros. Circus in his own backyard and to his student days in Italy, where he toured with...
Further confusing business's image is the problem of semantics. A poll of student attitudes on business might be significantly altered by the choice of words used to describe the business function. A small misunderstanding between business and students might be magnified by an image suggested by a poor choice of words. I have been using the word "business," and even--or especially--this word brings to mind the stereotyped image that the American business community is so worried about. The problem lies in the role of the manager, for that is the name applied to those who engage...
...manager is a producer of goods and services. He makes money. But what are the intellectual processes involved in his role? In what way does he function in, and personally contribute to, society? What good does he do, aside from manufacturing widgits and making everyone want a widgits of his own? How does he behave? What is expected of him? Until this concept of role has been better assimilated by undergraduates many will continue to shun business...
...Freshmen are assigned to advisors. Senior Faculty would act "as the Master Sergeants in this scheme," Finley says. He insists that Harvard has a responsibility "to deal honorably with everybody and send them off strongly," and that there is little prospect for the University's doing so unless the function is made official...
...officer said that any organization that claims to "speak for 3000 graduate students is really speaking for the 500 loud-mouths who bothered to vote." He called the GSOC demand for social action "ridiculous" and said that GSA's function was not as political spokesman for graduate students...