Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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First, Archibald MacLeish argues that Loeb's stated function--"plays for audiences"--is not inconsistent with artistic integrity, because good drama needs an "attending consciousness." Robert Chapman, Director of the Center, writes that Loeb seeks a "middle ground" between the theatre school and laissez-faire amateurism. (Page...
...example of how such a program might function, Monro mentioned Junior High School No. 43 in New York's Harlem district. There, promising children with poor backgrounds are introduced to higher learning and given a chance at college under the auspices of NSSFNS, the College Entrance Examination Board, and the New York Board of Education...
...spring of 1865, Jefferson Davis fled south to the hamlet of Danville, Va. There he held his last cabinet meeting in a local mansion, which proudly endures as "the last Capitol of the Confederacy." The old mansion has another use: it is the Danville Public Library. Last week that function was all but forgotten in a remarkable "integration" plan to keep readers with black skins off the premises...
Writing in a sunnier era, Woodrow Wilson once declared that the most important function of a Congressional committee is to influence public opinion. Wilson, of course, was making the dangerous assumption that men act in good faith. The past decade has shown how easy it is to turn an investigating committee into a vigilante squad, and a very recent case in point is the persecution of Linus Pauling by Senators Eastland and Dodd...
Within this philosophy of the function of art. B.B. proved himself extraordinarily receptive to works other than those of the Italian Renaissance. Classic architecture, both Greek and Roman, Byzantine mosaic and Medieval sculpture all provide him with "life-enhancing" works, works which he could return again and agin--with, it seems, unending pleasure...