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...society with Western ideas. What does "medical care" mean to people who believe in reincarnation and bodily deprivation? What does "industry" mean to people who still spin thread by hand? Western observers nevertheless continue to foist their models on Asian society. More tragically, they attempt to make the society conform to their models...
...more than good acting and clever staging, and the reason for the drama's failure lies in the nature of the Prometheus myth itself. The idea of an indifferent God whose supposed wisdom seems more like folly is familiar today; the words of those who urge the rebel to conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea from our own experience, the production sinks into a dramatic rite...
Women's attitudes range from "contented" at Winthrop to "uncomfortable" at Leverett, where there is a 9:1 ration of men to women, the guide states. Leverett women said they felt pressure to conform to traditional female roles and indicated there was some feeling that women were given preference in room selection...
...seats on the Town Meeting-instead of the usual one-third-were filed Monday. The change was necessary after redistricting by the city's Board of Selectmen raised the number of precincts from six to nine in order to conform with Massachusetts's state guidelines...
...Little Acre showed little sympathy for the plight of Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose bestselling novels in the West are banned in his own country. Caldwell tartly observed that "there's no law requiring a person to be a writer." He added: "Russian writers must conform to certain ideological rules laid down by society. Maybe that's better than being a mercenary...