10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCRUSTEAN»
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Procrustean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Procrustean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sleepless Nights in the
Procrustean Bed
In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays—nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary ...
2
Procrustean Standards: Race and Racism in North American ...
I combine these authors and texts to broaden the scope of previous investigations about race in the period's literature while drawing on those studies' strongest insights.
3
Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the ...
This is the deeply confusing and ambiguous sphere that Woodward later called
the procrustean politics of the New South. Like Chesnutt's bed of Procrustes,
Woodward's procrustean politics was fundamentally characterized by an ironic
racial ...
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Modern Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications
Procrustean. Analysis. istean procedures were first introduced in factor analysis
because uently deals with relatively high-dimensional vector configurations
would otherwise be hard to compare. Moreover, with very few exns [e.g., the
radex of ...
I. Borg, P. J. F. Groenen, 2007
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PROFILES, PROBABILITIES, AND STEREOTYPES
To be Procrustean is to be irrationally committed to uniformity, seeking to make
every situation fit the same mold, just as Procrustes made every passerby fit the
same bed. To describe a person or a plan as Procrustean is no compliment,
being ...
Frederick F Schauer, 2009
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Critical Theory and Animal Liberation
1. Procrustean. Solutions. to. Animal. Identity. and. Welfare. Problems. By. Karen.
Davis. There are many ways to describe and allegorize our brutal treatment of
other animals. But the one that seems most apt to me is the figure of Procrustes, ...
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Equality in Liberty and Justice
These are of three theoretically distinguishable but in practice closely connected
kinds: first, commitment to the procrustean ideal for its own sake; second, the
imperatives of socialist doctrine; and, third, intrinsically unideological - indeed ...
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Narrative Inquiry in a Multicultural Lan
PROCRUSTEAN MEASURES: LABELING PAM My learning from being in the
midst was slow and somewhat painful. As I reflected on my time with Pam and the
passions I felt as a Ms. Multicultural, I realized I was not only in the midst of life in
...
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Probabilistic
Procrustean Models for Shape Recognition with ...
Robot manipulators largely rely on complete knowledge of object geometry in order to plan their motion and compute successful grasps.
Jared Marshall Glover, 2008
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Non-natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of ...
"Procrustean. Beds. and. All. That": The. Irrelevance. of. Walras. for. a. Mirowski.
Thesis. Albert Jolink The Mirowski Theses: Ariadne's Thread or Gordian Knot? I
confess: Mirowski's More Heat than Light is provocative, intriguing, fascinating, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCRUSTEAN»
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Procrustean is used in the context of the following news items.
Ancient Greece and the Modern Greek Debt Crisis
To qualify for a third international bailout, Greece must adopt the “Procrustean” reforms, such as liberalizing closed professions and loosening ... «The Pappas Post, Jul 15»
The Cassandras will be proven wrong on euro
But don't they have a point that the euro has become a Procrustean Bed that is in danger of tearing Europe apart? Yes, they do. A means that is ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
Hemingway in Cuba
Young had a theory that was like -- you know, the Procrustean bed, and he had to cut me to fit into it." During dinner, the talk continued on writing styles and ... «The Atlantic, Jul 15»
The Right Poem
“Draconian,” “procrustean,” “Euripides”: however confusing the state of affairs in Athens and Brussels right now, it's clear that the temptation to ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
Opinion/Commentary: When regulation fails: Sometimes more policy …
So: Has all of this led to a renewed humility — a certain sense of human fallibility and the consequent danger of imposing Procrustean policies ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»
Questions of character and culture: Atticus Finch and his clay feet
Since both books offer polemics inside the fiction, neither fits into a Procrustean bed of personal pride and prejudice, but offers insights, for the ... «Bucks County Courier Times, Jul 15»
Here's How Regulators Create Problems, Not Solve Them
So: Has all of this led to a renewed humility — a certain sense of human fallibility and the consequent danger of imposing Procrustean policies ... «Reason, Jul 15»
Realm of Darkness
Apparently having found that the Procrustean bed for Russian NGOs was not narrow enough, the Constitutional Court of the Russian ... «Institute of Modern Russia, Jul 15»
Cork council merger: Red tape would strangle our true potential
To the Procrustean, bureaucratic mind, a single authority for Cork City and county has its attractions: it concentrates power inwards and ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
The Airline Cartel That Isn't
Alas, antitrust's procrustean prejudice against cooperative acts by competitors stands in the way. The Antitrust Institute, a trade group for ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
