Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such subtleties apparently do not trouble Papadopoulos and his colonels because they are elementary men. Or so it seems, for in a complex world they are trying to forge an anachronistically simplistic nation. Long hair is now immoral for schoolboys; the government has ordered haircuts, and in some cases police wielded the shears themselves. Bouzouki tavernas, where high-spirited Greeks loved to smash crockery in time with the frenzied music, have been tamed: guests are no longer allowed to break even a single saucer. Miniskirts are forbidden for young girls, and bar girls are being discouraged. Government officials must attend...
...excellent guide. But it is the cardinal premise of a division of social science called decision theory that intuition is often not enough. Decision theory is based on the premise that man's capacity to solve life's problems correctly is limited by two factors: in extremely complex situations, he is not always capable of mastering all the information, and he does not always decide as logic and reason tell him he should. Beyond human intuition, says Psychologist Ward Edwards, lies an individual's personal calculation of the odds in favor or against. This personal factor, which...
...Corporation leaves decisions on curricula, appointments, tenure and research to the Faculty but it retains control of the University's $1,100,000,000 endowment complex and appointment of presidents. Elected by international ballot, the Board of Overseers is being criticized for abdicating much of its authority to the Corporation...
...plans is not only inaccurate but simply untrue. The reference to "construction" of the Kennedy School of Government names a site where there is not the faintest intention of erecting any University facility. The Kennedy School, if it is accompanied at all in the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library complex, will find a place only in a combined international-public administration section hundreds of yards from the apartments in question. Both the sloppiness of the demands and the fact that they were in many cases addressed to parts of the University having nothing to do with University Hall reveal...
...with us, but which in any case does not even exist. Secondly, there was a reference to a play for a new Kennedy School of Government building. There is no such plan, and in so far as the Kennedy School may some day be accommodated in the complex of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, it will be in an international studies, public administration unit hundreds of yards from the apartments cited in the demands...