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...Mead warned: "If we presume to tell all groups that they should conform to our patterns of collective guilt feelings," the psychiatrists themselves would be guilty of "psychiatric imperialism...
...Book of Common Prayer or the Roman Catholic missal; liturgical alternatives are offered for almost every occasion. But even so, the General Council's Seminar on Worship, which spent ten years preparing the new pew-book, "expects" (there is still no way of forcing a Congregationalist congregation to conform) that parsons will put it to good...
...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...
...Deprive" would be possible, proceeding on this hypothesis: conform to, liken to, prior to, oblivious to, but deprive of ... The reason for selecting "adjacent" completely eludes me. A misprint, a bad question, or are we "oblivious" to something quite obvious...
...utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...