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Lack of freedom is a major defect in Communist education, he asserted. Teachers cannot teach what they believe, but must adhere to the ever-changing party line. Every year texts are changed to conform to the new party line. The result, the Hungarian said, is that the student is only confused...
City law requires that "all bicycle operators shall conform to traffic laws and regulations," and also states that persons under 21 who violate the law shall have their bicycles impounded subject to their parents' consent, but Sergeant James L. Delaney of the Cambridge police admits that "bicycle legislation is impossible to enforce...
...into practice, this dictum makes all Americans, particularly those abroad, into small megaphones for the State Department. Dulles implements his belief by reserving to himself the right to limit travel to conform to State Department whims...
...grey-haired man were correct, as such men are apt to be, then Harvard can be a haven for maturity and ofttimes for happiness. For the College, although we rarely admit it to ourselves, is the place to conform. At first glance Harvard seems to be the haven for the individualist, but after some inspection (and introspection) it becomes apparent that undergraduates are trying to be different in the same basic ways...
Once in the swing of things at Harvard, one can conform without effort and without even becoming aware of it, all the while thinking one is doing his very best to be different. The sad truth is that very few ways to be different have been discovered at Harvard. To disguise the truth, most conformity cults around Cambridge bill themselves as ways to be different. One can be different at Harvard by being better, and everyone here knows that he is better...