Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lecture Series on Man and the Visual Environment: Robert Gutman, professor of sociology, Rutgers University, on "The Social Function of the Built Environment." Emerson Hall...
...instance, will carry most readers past Lévi-Strauss's tenet that the mind may be the prisoner of a secret code, locked in the unconscious, that often has as little to do with conscious reality as the rules of grammar have to do with the function of speech. If order exists anywhere-in the behavior of the atom, the dance of heated particles, the orbit of the stars-then, say the structuralists, order must exist everywhere, even in the brain. Just as the law of gravity determined the fall of Newton's apple, so the laws...
Into this vacuum of thought, structuralism has reared its guidon all over the Gallic intellectual landscape. A new school of fiction has risen with the declared intent of consulting man's subconscious intellectual infrastructure rather than the visible rules of literary composition. The function of writing itself-rather than message, story or character-becomes the novelist's purpose. The formlessness of structural fiction stems from a reliance on the creative inspiration of the unconscious-the hidden intellectual code. At an even more arcane level, literary critics are using structuralism to redefine-and enhance-the critical role...
That was all, but it marked the first time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
...wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping to direct Vietnam Summer are said to believe that its main function is to plant the seeds for broad-based radical politics--something never before accomplished on a long-range basis in the United States...