Word: conform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair of the male human animal grows more slowly than crab grass-about ½ in. to 1 in. a month. But it never stops growing this side of the grave. Were it not for the tyranny of fashion, which insistently summons men to the barber, they might all conform to the Book of Leviticus, which commands that "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." In these shaggy times, which can produce a Van Cliburn, an Allan Ginsberg and a Joe Namath, not to mention the Beatles, the Monkees...
...Josephus was indeed a worthy reporter. The dates on both Roman and Jewish coins help confirm when the Jewish revolt against Rome began (A.D. 66), and when the Zealots died. The three-tiered, mosaic-floored villa and ceremonial palace built by Herod and later occupied by the Zealots also conform closely to the descriptions of Josephus...
Maddox, who is neither a public servant, nor an executive, nor an administrator does not conform to ideological standards. His views have always related to himself, his family, and his restaurant rather than to government. He has never understood the legislative functions of the governor, much less performed them in any fashion, liberal or conservative. He is now what he was as a campaigner and as a restaurant owner: a little man who shakes hands with the small-time businessman and the white worker. He delivers a lot more of those flat and amateurish speeches then he did before becoming...
...flowers and grasses. Subsequently he laid out the gardens for most of the major parks in Brazil. The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo waterfront in Rio are alike adorned with the extravagant splendor of rain-forest verdure-all manicured no more than is strictly necessary to conform to the severity of Roberto's designs...
...decades. Not that he approves. "I can understand the modern in classical music-in a composer like Bartok, for example-but I don't understand it in jazz," he says. "To me it's just strange sounds." He accepts his conservatism unabashedly, makes no attempt to conform to fashion by changing his own style. "When I play what I feel, that's how it comes out," he says. "At least I can be myself...