Word: procrustean
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Weary of political pragmatism, Lowi prescribes a return to idealism. That idealism is at times Procrustean and not easy to put into practice, but all of it is refreshing to hear. His program calls not for less central government but for more -and this time with teeth. He would establish a senior civil service group, for example, composed of generalists with ties to no single agency, who would be responsible for providing a "proper centralization of a democratic administrative process." Sloppily written laws, he feels, have been much to blame for the failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional...
...Arlo Guthrie's instant-hit record of last year. Penn currently is working on Little Big Man, a study of the contemporary American Indian, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role. ∙ STANLEY KUBRICK. A favorite of the French theorists, Kubrick ironically has the most difficulty fitting their procrustean bed. His films are alike only in their lapidary craftsmanship and strong visual sense. At his best, Kubrick created America's finest antiwar movie, Paths of Glory. At his worst, in Lolita, he flattened Nabokov's Krafft-Ebing satire and missed the author's parody of motel...
...flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole...
...California were taken by Didi Pei '68, who in his junior year was photo chairman of the Harvard Year-book, and who recently was working as a Kennedy campaign staff photographer in California. Some of the pictures were taken on the day Kennedy was shot. in America's procrustean political mechanisms. While Kennedy assured such blocs he would represent them, he also tried to give them a sense that their own participation, wholly apart from his own future, would in time yield results. The upshot of his pitch was a multiple victory: alienated blacks and poor whites voted en masse...
...that he is not concerned with anyone's guilt or innocence. But he admits that "whatever imbalance" the book contains he has "carefully left untouched." That is putting it mildly. Zeligs has, in effect, undertaken to rewrite Chambers' autobiography, Witness, and reshape its author to fit a Procrustean bed of neuroses. To a more casual reader, Witness, while a little Wagnerian in style, presents the picture of a very emotional man who was driven by a capacity for total dedication, first to Communism and then to combatting Communism. But to Dr. Zeligs, Chambers was a sex freak...