Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turreted towers glows like imprisoned sunlight; glass has succumbed to stone. And behind the facade, inner grace balances outer strength. The stairways are cascades of red-orange carpeting; the low ceilings are dimpled with lights embedded in them like flat moons, and the throwaway nooks and crannies have no function except to delight...
...many respects, the quality of the production is extraordinarily high. The parties responsible have made a number of bold choices, and most of them have paid off. Notable in this regard are Paul Fry's simple modular settings, which combine function with a sort of determined elegance rare to house stages. Equally significant is Mr. Bloch's decision to emphasize the inherent humor of line and situation, and to use a liberal hand in devising comic business. Although occasionally subtle antics which animate the human background throughout the evening distract from more important actions, the general effect...
...Army unit during the past several years has repeatedly failed to meet even the minimal quota of commissioned officers by which a unit justifies its existence. Elsewhere a unit which isn't producing officers might be closed down. But not here. Harvard's ROTC units have a more important function than producing officers: they lend legitimacy and prestige to the whole concept of military training on the nation's campuses...
...contact sport, the danger of injury is always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
...Meanies won because they had an unbeatable System. They intimidated the participants and even the audience into playing their way; no blow was too low. Throughout the afternoon of rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames...