Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free architecture from its responsibility to society: "Now more than ever, we need to ask what validity, if any, there is in architecture as a social art. Architecture must reflect its context, must speak to the human condition at a certain time and place, while also fulfilling its physical function...
...points are all institutional. The designs meet aesthetic requirements while also reconciling conflicting aims inherent in the programs. Haggia Sophia, a great church constructed in the sixth century, symbolized the stability and unity of Justinian's reign, simultaneously conveying the sense of imcompleteness, anxiety, and aspiration crucial to its function as a place of worship. Palladio's Pallazzo Chiericati in Venice serves a double function as a private house and a border to a public square. Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in southern California provides a communal framework in which scientists can carry out individual research...
...needed. Unless otherwise amended, though, a system of regional primaries would not increase the influence of party officials--which most analysts see as crucial. Still, the proposal is far more popular than the one-day national primary concept, which professors widely criticize for ignoring local differences, eliminating the "testing" function of a more drawn-out campaign, and giving even more influence to the media...
...superabundance of primaries has also led to the "decline of the traditional party function" of informing voters and of choosing experienced. strong standard-bearers," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, contends. "The old-fashioned convention performs better than 35 or 40 primaries. They drive out viable candidates early if the media judges them to be lagging...
...details don't matter. "The function of government is the protection of evildoers and the rewarding of the good people. Two-hundred fourteen fire alarms in an eight-month period is nothing other than a zoo in the name of education, and our people are caught in a web they don't know how to get out of." So what would you do if you were president? "Oh, I'd go back to what we had in the early part of this century, where we were the leader of the world, and any Communist country started to infringe...