Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts expended by women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...
...recall CRR's history. "We should remember the Vietnam protests of ten years ago," Barbara M. Watson '81, a House resident, said, adding, "By breaking the boycott we are saying we don't believe in what you worked for. They can set up another committee [to fulfill CRR's function] if they think they need to, but there is no reason now for us to say, yes, we have forgotten...
...best, the Dowling Committee's revised student assembly would function as a muted advisor to the University administration--the same role fulfilled by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life and the Committee on Undergraduate Education since they were constituted a decade ago, when students had too much political conviction for the administration's comfort...
...crucial issue is not ten dollars--it is the split between structure and function. The structure, as proposed, facilitates only debate. The function needed from a College-wide organization is pressuring Harvard to take action students want. That function is lacking in any "advisory" body, particularly one officially sanctioned by the University. We do not need another organizational structure that sees students as consumers of Harvard's services. We need to change Harvard's power system. Right now, Harvard hears only what it wants to hear. The centralization and institutionalization of impotence does not merit support...
...conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...