Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, a small band of young dissidents bent on defecting to the gun-toting Black Panthers tried to change the initials to N.A.A.B.P. They got nowhere. The incident demonstrated the association's continuing dilemma: how to stay in touch with the impatient younger generation of Negroes and still function as a moderate alternative to those who preach violence and racial separation...
...China, they're trying to build a strong society, a revolutionary society that they hope will ultimately conquer the world. But they don't allow this kind of sexuality. They came to the conclusion that this is a destructive force. I don't think the function of the playwright, the author, the artist, is to reflect what's going on, any more than I should reflect what's going on. I think their function ought to be to lead, to direct...
...With their own individual talents, Gropius' only rivals--Le Corbusier, Wright, Mies van der Rohe--responded. But only Gropius confronted the machine with an equally imposing voice. Only he replied in terms of the mechanistic, in terms that could grasp for beauty at the same time as they captured function...
...Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Switching angles and changing focuses, splicing bits and pieces sharp as shards, he re-creates their barbed world in a manner often confusing but finally effective. With their mother dispatched to another relocation camp i,n Montana, the father has abdicated his paterfamilias function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit...
...here and now, severance is a heinous punishment. The university should grant amnesty at this time because its function never was to punish. And these are extraordinary times, when we cannot reject members of our community. We will just have to get along with one another...