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...names and terminology must be correct, otherwise "the people do not know to move hand or foot." This idea, suggest Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank in a joint book on Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form over reality. Partly, it is a cautious avoidance of precise commitments or statements to avoid the later embarrassment of being wrong...
...before the SDS deadline, Dean Ford released a statement announcing the public meeting. "There . . . will be no arranged debate," the statement said, "but there will be an opportunity for faculty and students to question Ambassador Goldberg on all aspects of American foreign policy. Obviously, this format does not conform to the specific requests of any one student organization; but it will, I believe, satisfy widespread interest within the University...
...American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...
Their "overinsistence" on getting boys to conform to their teaching may have "an unconscious getting even quality," because they resent the prejudice men show toward women in the professions. The professors suggest that teachers should become aware of these things and to realize that young boys need "the nurturing warmth of a woman," not harsh words...
...Without Halakah," Israeli Author Abraham Kariv told a Jerusalem symposium on Halakah last week, "we do not know how to believe, let alone how to express our faith in everyday life." The Orthodox regard any watering down of Halakah as "the Gallup-poll approach to Judaism"-making the law conform to practice and thus, for example, permitting the eating of nonkosher food on the ground that roughly 60% of all Jews do not observe dietary rules anyway. Such relaxation, they believe, would create a "Jewnitarian" religion...