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...parties the social club holds this year will have to conform to College party regulations—including a bartender and Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) presence...
Most are trying variants on what the Dutch call gedogen--turning a blind eye. The authorities keep marijuana-possession statutes on the books to conform with a 1988 international convention that prohibits outright legalization and to avoid the political controversy of changing the law. But they opt for quite lenient enforcement. Last month police in Brixton started a six-month experiment: they will caution users on the spot and confiscate their dope rather than book them for prosecution. The cops expect to save at least five hours of police work per nonarrest, which they will devote to street crime...
...general in the 1966 movie "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" O'Connor's participation in the development of Archie's character has become so passionate that it frequently causes tension on the "Family" staff. At times he flatly refuses to perform a script that does not conform to his conception of the role. An example was last season's episode about Archie's being trapped in a stalled elevator with a middle-class black and a Puerto Rican girl about to give birth to a baby. It was used only after Lear overrode O'Connor's objections...
...including inherited style, was discredited by the disaster of the trenches. The Modernist response was another battle cry: "Back to zero." Style for its own sake was a lie, like the official rationales for the Great War. What the new age demanded was that the appearance of any building conform to the trusty realities that construction might dictate. Those were usually flat roofs, exposed structural elements and sheet glass--a material loved for its associations with transparency and honesty. Mies called ornament "macaroni." He didn't mean it fondly...
...ways to continue Phelan’s vision of a department that emphasizes creative work. A desire to make the departments administration run more smoothly does not require any change to its substantive direction, and VES can be as efficient as other departments without losing its unique aspects to conform to their model...