Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list could be prolonged almost indefinitely, and will be: before the '70s are out, the first $10 million painting will probably have gone under the hammer. It does not take a very puritanical conscience to deduce that this involves a grotesque inversion of values, a crisis in the function that past art can play in present culture...
...museums outbidding one another in an ego race. This ignores a fundamental question: Who, exactly, does need the masterpiece-and why? A few years ago, the late art historian Erwin Panofsky spoke approvingly of "the unselfish rapacity of the museum director." As time passes, and as the use and function of museums come under more rigorous examination, it is arguable that the rapacity that impelled Thomas Hoving to expend more than $5.5 million on the Met's new Velasquez is not, however great the painting may be, unselfish...
...cases before us we are asked to perform a function that the Constitution gave to the Executive, not the Judiciary. We are asked to prevent the publication by two newspapers of material that the Executive Branch insists should not, in the national interest, be published. I am convinced that the Executive is correct with respect to some of the documents involved. But I cannot say that disclosure of any of them will surely result in direct, immediate and irreparable damage to our nation or its people...
...nearly 24 days, the three cosmonauts had whirled around the earth in their huge, 175¾-ton Salyut space station performing scientific experiments, bantering with mission control, and even celebrating a birthday in orbit. On board both the Salyut and the attached Soyuz shuttle craft, all systems seemed to function flawlessly. Thus last week, when the cosmonauts were ordered to transfer to Soyuz and return to earth, there was little cause for apprehension...
...professor, contended that the Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered the nation. When Griswold contended in his summary that the First Amendment was "not intended to make it impossible for Government to function," Justice Potter Stewart observed that unless there was conclusive proof that publication of documents endangered national security, then "prior restraint is presumptively unconstitutional...