Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nader, the issue is not lack of understanding but of power. In trying to redistribute power, said Nader, "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." But most people "don't know the rudiments of civic inquiry, and if they don't have a process of learning where to get information, they will reflect the usual attributes of powerlessness: apathy, lethargy, disillusionment, negativism...
...three to 13 years. Nor are new emotional and mental disorders very likely in old age: true senility is uncommon, and only 1% of the elderly can expect to become demented. Says Comfort: "The human brain does not shrink, wilt, perish or deteriorate with age.* It normally continues to function well through as many as nine decades...
Most of the time, most of us don't think of the architecture in which we function day-to-day, until it changes or we leave it. Architecture, as both a social and an aesthetic experience, is more permanent than other structures of group interaction, and at the same time more immediate than other arts. Buildings are doubly familiar as things to be appreciated for themselves and as arenas in which to play--and for exactly that reason, architecture is fully appreciated neither as author nor as experience. The buildings we know well, we take for granted; they seem...
...that yes, these things are forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one thinks to recycle it when its original function ceases to be historically valid, or when the structure can no longer hold the activity for which it was built. Instead, we replace the old construction with something which serves the demands of the moment and the market...
...emphasis on language and basic science courses. Seminars are available in conjunction with the Radcliffe Institute, and writing labs are also offered. The six largest enrollment courses this fall are, in order, "Accounting," "Intensive Elementary Spanish," "Intensive Elementary German," "The Human Life Cycle," "Twentieth Century Art" and "Nature and Function...