Word: conform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, neither students nor advisers are made aware in any systematic way of the various purposes just described. The catalogue of courses by which students plan their study describes the curriculum almost entirely in subject matter terms. The requirements to which they must conform speak in similar fashion; all students must concentrate in one subject area and distribute the rest of their courses among other broad fields. These requirements are general enough to give the student great freedom to choose an interesting program. But if students wish to discipline their minds in ways that will be useful in later life...
...setup confers enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
Chesler also charges that therapists consider women to be inferior beings. In treatment, she insists, women are encouraged to talk instead of to act, to live passively instead of being active and to conform to a "feminine" role. They are forced to re-enact with their patriarchal therapists the role that initially made them sick: little girls in thrall to their fathers. Worst of all, women patients are often sexually exploited by male therapists, Chesler alleges...
Pollack admitted as much in an interviews shortly before the film's Boston premiere. His hero, he told me then, is "a man who turns his back on civilization because he wants to find a place where it's totally unnecessary for him to conform to a code of ethics...
...with the female chromosome pattern,* and each had internal female organs but a penis and empty scrotum outside. One set of parents believed they had a boy and raised their child accordingly; the other set assigned their offspring as a girl. (Surgery and hormones made the youngsters' appearance conform to the chosen sex.) According to Money, the children's "antithetical experiences signified to one that he was a boy and to the other that she was a girl." The girl therefore reached preadolescence expecting to marry a man; in fact, she already had a steady boy friend...