Word: conformer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...connection with the recent events at Harvard, a number of false inferences have been suggested by published news reports. Articles in the New York Times about Harvard do not conform in all respects with reality, as some examples will show. Yet it seems to us essential that the record be accurate, for misinterpretations of the actions of the Harvard faculty may encourage excesses by extremists of the left or the right far beyond the college campuses...
MODERN BUREAUCRACIES, like modern factories, require workers who can be counted on to behave in certain ways. The bureaucrat must respect authority, be compulsively punctual, and conform easily to various standards of dress, speech and behavior. The bureaucrat's subservience to his superiors must be combined with an intense competitiveness in his relations with his peers. And most importantly, the bureaucrat must be motivated primarily by his desire for a reward (money, status, prestige) which is external to the work process itself. Like the industrial worker, the bureaucrat is useless to his masters unless he is economically "rational". This means...
...standing Faculty Community on Afro-American Studies, outlined a structure for the Afro-American Studies program. In a meeting held for potential concentrators in the field that night, two sectionmen, one from Social Sciences 5 and one from Economics 1, stated that the program for the next year would conform to the structure described in the communique. A telephone call be an officer of Afro Friday morning to Daniel Fox, assistant professor of History, and member of the standing Faculty Committee, substantiated that statement. Fox did mention that the program would be changed, but only vaguely intimated when such changes...
...Bruins, the Stanley Cups poses the choice between tightening their game to conform to traditional Stanley Cup play or continuing to play the wide-open, bruising game that has propelled them to the first division this year. The problem, and there is always a problem with breaking traditions, will come when the Bruins' tough reputation meets NHL officiating...
...probability, one of whose basic concepts is Bernoulli's law of large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds that man creates, may tend ultimately toward a state of stability, or stochos (the Greek word for goal). Hence...