Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Whether it's in making a film or in designing a chair, Eames' first concern is with the idea or the function rather than the style. "I use film to get across an idea, not to invent a style," he said. "Style's important in getting across a point; through interest in the subject, one invents style, not through interest in style alone...
...political process. Advisory services have been financed mainly by the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the host countries. About half of the advisors are non-Americans. A University wide committee, which reviewed the DAS in 1968, concluded that the DAS was a "proper function for a university," and for Harvard in particular, and that the professional reputation of the DAS was "uniquely high...
...worked to expand New York's brainpower, which is C.U.N.Y.'s most important function, Bowker has presided over incredible growth; since he took office, his university has added three four-year campuses and three community colleges to its units scattered throughout the city (see map). Two more will open next fall. They range from Georgian-style Brooklyn College and Park Avenue's Hunter College to raw two-year schools in poverty areas and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for New York policemen. C.U.N.Y.'s 195,000 students make it the third largest institution...
then one's privacy is invaded. It may well be that the dictatorships of the world with their high priority attached to the police function in an attempt to limit the freedoms of individual citizens may not be aberrations of civilized man but one of the watermarks of the 20th century...
...many existing dictatorships, however, the police function, while pervasive, is not undertaken by the Army. Recent disclosures such as Pyle's concerning the Army's intelligence operations in the "continental United States" raise serious questions about the Army's role in domestic politics. The judge who dismissed the ACLU suit claimed that Army maintenance of files was no different than maintenance of files by a newspaper. Frank Askin, arguing for the plaintiffs, observed that no newspaper also possessed weapons or other means of force to deploy against whoever was on file. The right of the Army to operate data banks...