Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...works were produced for specific places or persons but in the 19th century were also made for "unknown clients and unknown walls," that is, museum exhibitions. The concept of "museum," beginning only in the 19th century, creates an unusual teether for most viewers who haven't thought about the function of a painting, but have always looked at them in museums and for museums...
...time of his death he had evolved into a patient mediator, seeking to settle the quarrels that flared interminably among his fellow Arabs. He even seemed to have abandoned the dream that had prompted the conspiracy: transforming all the Arab League nations into socialist governments that would function as a kind of consortium, presumably with Egyptians at the head...
...that if appointed he would continue to serve in his Washington post as well since "What's good for Harvard is good for the FBI," members of the Corporation have emphatically denied that possible conflict of interest was a negative factor in his case, pointing out that the primary function of both Harvard and the FBI is to gather information. In summary, although a dissenting member of the Corporation insists that the appointment of Alfred Vellucci would pave the way to better town-grown relations, the strongest candidate right now is definitely God. A member of the Corporation was overheard...
...Soviet Union. The operation was unsuccessful and Petrovsky frankly questions its value. "We are doing experimental work on heart transplantation," he says. "But we do not believe that this problem is as important as kidney transplantation. In the latter case we operate when the kidneys cease to function, and the patient cannot live any longer with these kidneys." Soviet medical men have no such reservations about bone transplants, which are now being done regularly at Moscow's Institute of Traumatology. In Soviet practice, bones that may be useful in transplants may be removed during routine autopsies unless the relatives...
...Hitler's designs, form follows function as surely as in any Corbusier or Gropius. The function had nothing to do with human needs. It was simply to intimidate the people, and to assert the state-visual symbols as purposeful as Goebbels' radio broadcasts. No Berliner could look anywhere in his city, Hitler hoped, without seeing that overpowering dome, those relentless colonnades...