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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...
...remedy for this grievance lay in the individual department concerned. Sometimes such intellectual curiosity may be dilettantism, sometimes in part at least a good excuse for not doing something important but difficult. Yet it might be more valuable to try to satisfy it than to force a student to conform to regulations that may be rigid, outmoded, or unimaginative. Also, even dilettantism has its uses. We believe that departments often could provide means for students to follow more flexible programs, and that, when they cannot in conscience do so, they often could explain their refusals more personally and therefore more...