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Contrary Approach. To be recycled, buildings must conform to an economic law as iron-cast as their own beams or facades: they must pay their way. The entrepreneur begins with a solid old structure that is well served by transportation facilities or on the fringes of desirable downtown areas. When architects come in to assess conversion problems, they have to take an approach contrary to all of their training; instead of form following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself...
SUCCESS BY ANY definition is something that we want. When we want something very badly we tend to redefine that goal as "good"; we no longer see what's wrong with it. When our goal is popularity with or power over other people we tend to conform to other people's notions of what a good companion or reasonable leader is. We try to fit ourselves into a pattern specified by someone else. We become the perfectly attentive lover or the perfectly dutiful student or the perfectly reliable worker...
Hair Styles. Hinting at another long-desired goal, reunification with the North, the P.R.G. turned Saigon's clocks back one hour to conform with Hanoi time, and sections of the ancient French-built Hanoi-Saigon railway, unused during the war, were reopened. There were also signs that "liberation" of the South might have some impact on the North, especially if residents of one region were allowed to travel freely in the other. Bureaucrats in Hanoi have been studying sketches of different clothing and hair styles, apparently to enliven the drab appearance of the North...
What irritated him then and angers him now was the way Harvard worked to make him "conform to an elite mold--socially, politically, Christ, in so many ways." The pressure to conform went beyond clothes and into studies. Marglin realized after he discovered economics his freshman year. "The main thrust around here was how complicated life was, and how you should be deferential to authority," he says. "Mary wasn't worth studying because he was simplistic. My first economics course spent two days on Mary, which is the way Protestantism is taught in Catholic schools. It was taught as heresy...
...case, if V.P.S. gets no takers, the negative of the film will "soon" be cut to conform with Becker's recasting...