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...Harlow and Billy the Kid swap repetitive obscenities for 60 minutes. To what end? If The Beard means to scandalize, it fails: its words are now numbingly familiar onstage. If it means to extol freedom of speech, it falters: its four-letter words express so little that they produce constraint of speech...
...gained new impetus during and since the Kennedy years. Paradoxically, perhaps, in view of their desire to work with groups, these students share the individualism, not to say anarchism, of the uncommitted law students, and they are sometimes so violently anti-bureaucratic that they cannot endure even the mild constraints and regulation either of the law school or of a government agency; like many talented students today, they suffer from a claustrophobia which resists all constraint, whether of curriculum or language or manners or the compromises of day-to-day legal practice or political life. Believing that feelings count more...
...Soviet government subsidizes the program. The swimmers have "no constraint on time or money -- they're just training," Schollander said. "We were lucky to get pretty good performances or they might have beaten us," he added...
Riesman would like to humanize the college experience by digging behind old standards and cliches. In Constraint and Variety in American Education, a series of lectures published in 1956, he cited the need for "honest and probing consumer research" to find a way behind a college's stereotyped facade. Riesman wrote then: "If one loses a few dollars through misleading advertising, one can make others, but if one loses four years through misleading schooling, one cannot make them up--on the contrary, in some cases one may have formed false values, false estimates of one's self, of others...
...possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced into the unnatural constraint of a nunnery, an artificially "angelic" costume, it becomes crazed and anarchic...