Word: follow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries that follow your platitude, "production for use," without exception produce far less for their people to enjoy, of much shoddier quality, at much higher prices (measured by the hours of work needed to buy something). Don't you know that "Socialist" countries are smuggling "capitalist" incentives into their systems? Has it not dawned on you that whenever and whenever there is no free market, there is no free thought, no free art, no free politics, no free life...
...first freshman boat will race at about 3:15 p.m., and the J.V. and varsity races will follow shortly afterwards. The course runs from the out-jut of Memorial Drive to the old M.I.T. boathouse...
Wrangling with Bankers. Confusion has arisen despite-and partly because of-a seven-year effort by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to standardize corporate reporting. The institute prescribes rules through its 18-man Accounting Principles Board, and firms of accountants must follow them or risk being charged with unethical conduct. The SEC, which polices accounting by publicly owned companies, goes along with the board's formal "opinions...
Rudely stated, this message lies at the heart of Vonnegut's work. For all his roundhouse swinging at punch-card culture, his satiric forays are really an appeal for a return to Christlike behavior in a world never conspicuously able to follow Christ's example. For Vonnegut, man's worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable, to the unbearable. Misused, modern science is its prime instrument. "I think a lot of people teach savagery to their children to survive," he observed recently. Then he added, saying it all, from Cain...
...been given three pens and ordered to write the story of his life up to the age of 20, starting with the first things he remembers. Object of the exercise: not make-do Adlerian therapy but a complete brainwash. "What I must do in the weeks that follow," warns his interrogator before applying the autobiographical wringer, "is find your moment of worst pain. . .during your childhood. . .and make you relive it. Then when you absolve yourself of all adult responsibilities, I shall pick...