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It wasn'tThat she was less willing to be helped to walkBut that the walking itself had become less willing.Maybe the stupid demogorgon blindRecalcitrance of body, resentful of the lawsOf mind and spirit, was getting its own back now,Or maybe a new and subtle, alien,Intelligence of body was obedient nowTo other laws: "Weight is the measure of The force with which a body is drawn downward To the center of the earth"; "Inertia isThe tendency of a body to resist Proceeding to its fate in any wayOther than that determined for itself."
They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.
Deming's emphasis on worker autonomy and a joint "conversation" about the company's goals revises the much stricter model of "scientific management" championed by Frederick W. Taylor at the turn of the century, in which the workers were expected to be obedient drones.
from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."
In theory, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs at that time, Colin Powell, was an obedient officer ranking directly below Clinton in the chain of command.