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Berliners dubbed Mary a "Pompadour in saintly garb." Despite her status as a mistress, she insisted that Wilhelm's morals conform to her own Calvinist standards. First, his pornographic pictures had to go. In a little ceremony by the fireplace, the pair solemnly watched the vast collection consumed in flames; then over oranges and tea, Mary lectured Wilhelm on the duties of a Christian prince. Wilhelm was soon sending swords to friends with the inscription: "In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost." Under her badgering, he lent his name to her efforts to organize Berlin...
...layman is hampered by ignorance, the researcher is truly strung by elaborate checking , loyalty oaths, and clear procedures. Piel deplores "the promotion of conform and notes: "Everyone who freedom and science must be concerned at the present authoritan drift in our culture." Undeniably, scientific effort is impaired. The individual scientist is regarded as a natural resource, a weapon to "give the modern state its military power. This is not healthy. Furthermost there is excessive emphasis on technology and applied science, with responding neglect of pure science...
...Perkowski, in Moors, emphasized the importance of having college regulations meet the expectations of parents and conform to minimum standards of social behavior outside the college community...
...part, Sylvester was defending, and trying to explain, Administration review policies. The purpose of making statements by military men conform to national policy, he said, is "to ensure that this country speaks not from the weakness of contradictory voices but from the strength of one." To the charge of capriciousness, he replied: "We can issue and have issued guidelines to define areas of established defense and national policy. But it is impossible to cover every case that might arise. There is no formula by which a speech can be reviewed. No computer can be programmed to clear one phrase...
Last week Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mortimer Caplin indicated that he was tiring of the Medici role. Henceforth, he declared, his field agents would insist that all appraisals on donated works of art would have to conform to realistic market value. Warned Caplin: "The service is not required to accept appraisals merely because they were prepared by 'expert appraisers...