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...Said Dulles: ''We would like to see in Indonesia a government which is constitutional . . . There is a kind of 'guided democracy' trend there . . . which may not quite conform with the provisional constitution, and apparently does not entirely satisfy large segments of the population...
Perhaps the most serious deficiency of this book is, however, its failure to conform to supposedly "aesthetic" criteria. This book is badly written, badly constructed, and shows no evidence of having been designed to communicate anything of significance to the reader. It is perfectly possible that the absence of content is due to Dr. Farnsworth's intention of acting as a popularizer. But a man who brings science to the people must tell these people something that they do not know, or he will be useless...
...programs with no possible reference to human activity. Yet the failure of these men to realize the importance of language and form in the presentation of their work is perhaps the most important single blindness now retarding our effort to develop a new vision of human nature which will conform to our scientific predelictions and replace the mystical resignation of medieval religion...
...college senior, I find the situation alarming. There is mass apathy, nothing creates an impression, no one cares about anything but themselves. One must conform to these apathetic tendencies and others or else be labeled a nut, a "turkey...
...current college generation is a trifle depressing. "I find no political interest any more," says he. "There's no cultivation of heterogeneity. We're not looking for the maverick." But Yale's Dean William De Vane says: "I see no danger in the degree of conformity among students. Indeed, I do not believe that they conform as readily as my college generation 40 years ago." Both a puzzle and a fascination to their professors, today's college students have earned a new nickname. See EDUCATION. The No-Nonsense Kids...