Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Emboldened by his victory, Hoffa last week asked the Appeals Court for permission to call a Teamsters convention early next year. Order of business: to re-elect Hoffa as full-fledged president and thus extinguish the board of monitors. In fact, the monitors were headless and unable to function, and resourceful Jimmy Hoffa was riding high and wide, planted more firmly than ever in the driver's seat of the nation's biggest union...
...this metamorphosis, the gods presumably share Olympus with The World's 100 Great Paintings. To satisfy this lofty status, Malraux exalts the secular painter's function to a kind of priestly vocation. Sacred art deified its subject; profane art deifies the calling of the artist. "Cezanne," Malraux argues, "did not wish to represent apples, he wished to paint pictures...
...back to its proper role, Dubuffet argued, it must be "stripped of all the tinsel, laurels, and buskins in which it has been decked, and must be seen naked with all the creases of its belly. Once disencumbered, it will dance and yell like a madman, which is its function." Dubuffet became the leader of the art brut (raw art) movement, which dedicated itself to the proposition that the only art worth while was "spontaneous," and that those who are the most spontaneous are savages, lunatics and children...
...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...
...produced some bitterness, especially because the status of disarmament was a vital part of the constitution given to Japan by MacArthur. But beyond this the geographical situation of Japan, which makes it an outpost of the Asiatic continent, awakens the desire of this ninety-million nation to change their function and to become politically independent. This is probably naive in view of the present world, but it is emotionally understandable...