Word: procrustean
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...Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects on a smaller screen. The subject and scope of the Southeast Asian conflict are too large for such narrow-gauge examination. Unhappily, the war has not yet finished exacting its terrible penalties and distortions. Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began as a warrior; it ends as a casualty...
...Worlds. They were all written between 1895 and 1897. In an argument that is echoed today by many science-fiction writers, Wells stated that the novel was the only medium through which the great questions of social change could be discussed. Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices. "Before we are done," he said, "we will have all life within the scope of the novel...
This week Allen is in Washington at the White House Conference on Children, superselling his suggestion that every school system in the nation should create an "alternative" school "where change is the tradition." Said he: "Students will no longer tolerate a procrustean system of education. I want useful alternatives and an atmosphere of choice...
...policy would constitute in effect roughly an 8 to 10 per cent cut in personnel. At the present time such gross methods do not appear to me to be appropriate. The needs and opportunities and the state of development of various departments and budgetary units differ greatly. A procrustean formula at this date is a poor tool...
...Minister Franz-Josef Strauss. In Cat and Mouse (1961), a nearly flawless small novel about German teenagers during World War II, Grass openly made fun of the Iron Cross?by having his hero dangle it in front of his genitals. Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets. But Grass has also cleverly spun the coin of guilt to show that the Nazi nightmare was built upon Everyman's petty greed, with its corresponding indifference to the fate of others. In dealing...