Word: function
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...same is true of the cities on the Continent. Rebuilt or refurbished since World War II, they gleam and they function. Crime is a frequent outrage, but not an epidemic. Police are not loved, but they are not the target of guerrilla warfare. Drug abuse is growing, but it is still an aberration, not a commonplace. In Paris, even the telephones seem to work better than in New York now, though that must surely be an illusion. All round, within easy commuting distance by clean, modern train, are the beauties and playgrounds of a wealthy, comfortable continent...
...connection between the increasingly representational tendencies in Western art (culminating with the Impressionists' pseudoscience of "capturing" light) and the elite system of distribution, the "individualization" of culture consumption. (The "art lover" syndrome is unique to modern societies.) Primitive art, by contrast, is for everybody and performs a social function, possesses a sign-value. Language is by nature a group phenomenon, an device versa. It follows that, in the chance of historical signification's surrounding the events at Adalen in 1931, without a clear definition of group relations, social depth-perception, class-consciousness, etc., you are going to run into problems...
...critical question for the university community to consider is under what circumstances the University should take on a service function, and how such functions should be monitored. That issue applies not only to the DAS, but also to the administration of rental housing, the maintenance of city clinics, the support of Roxbury enterprises, the conduct of Cambridge experimental schools, the support and assistance of protesting urban groups, and so on. I do not believe that service functions such as these are managed by sinister agents of a Maoist revolution any more than I believe that the DAS is managed...
Portraiture is the only form of Zen art that has a clearly defined function. Other paintings in Zen art, whether representations of eccentric poets or recluses, of sparrows or herons, of encounters, visits, or dialogues, have a purpose but no yet-discovered function. Paintings on the whole were not used as tools for instruction in Enlightenment; themes dealing with Nature might be looked at from the point of view of the Ch'an painter's awareness of "a single reality underlying the phenomena of nature." But, as the catalogue states, "the most obvious criterion for establishing what...
...gave his opinion that the ordinance was illegal for two reasons. First, an independent expert investigation would have to be made to determine whether or not a housing emergency actually existed in Cambridge, and second, the appropriation of $5000 mentioned in the ordinance was inappropriate because funding is a function that belongs to the city manager...