Word: conform
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.L.I, test, which may some day be known as Freeman, provides that: "A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." However, "repeated criminal conduct" does not alone prove such abnormality...
...arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear to be on a single plane, the monk's robe swirls from his back to his sleeves as if it were turning inside out. But this would not bother the Japanese; they used "bird...
Those who had gone on to graduate schools chafed at having to conform to specialized curriculums and called for more freedom to concentrate on the non-Western world. They talked of radical interdisciplinary centers devoted to answering the questions of national and personal development which they had confronted abroad...
...tyranny, pure and simple." The Iowa Civil Liberties Union discussed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps on the ground that the decision violated Painter's religious freedom. Painter himself was bitter. "What they've said," he commented, "is that if parents don't conform to a middle-class Middle Western mode of living, they face loss of their children. By that standard, several million Americans would have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn...
...university has retreated in some measure from this position since the strike began January 4. A faculty senate has been created; the rules concerning tenure have been changed to conform to standard practice in American universities; and the choice the department chairmen will be partially determined by faculty preference...