Word: conform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no power to create policy," Putnam said yesterday. "But I know the Treasurer would lean over backward to conform to our wishes...
...with his Before the Revolution, has added a lot of panache to Moravia's book but lost much of its psychological strength. Marcello (lean-Louis Trintignant), the film's protagonist, is a rigidly "normal" young man who marries and joins the Fascists for the same reason-to conform. His passion for convention is the ill-fitting mask he wears to cover his own moral corruption. While he was a young boy, he was the victim of an attempted seduction by the family chauffeur (Pierre Clementi); Marcello killed the chauffeur accidentally while playing with a pistol. Marcello has passed...
...procedures conform more closely to recommendations put forth by the Association of American University Professors (AAUP...
...interview, and that he proceeded to get thoroughly drunk immediately after the session. It had been sufficient to be accused of inauthenticity by an Eastern intellectual to be thoroughly unmanned. And not so unexpectedly, this same assistant professor said that he liked me because I did not conform to what he considered to be the Harvard stereotype. What he did not say (possibly even what he did not know) was that the Marine Corps stereotype had somehow shattered the Harvard stereotype in his mind, and that the other Harvard applicants for the same position had not been similarly divested...
...even, within such a context, Hugh Hefner. Certainly all worthy of Who's Who, but hardly New York's Four Hundred. That most of the personalities on Wolfe's little list are also celebrities is a testament to the sheer force of their outlandishness. They've forced fame to conform to their standards: their success the result of their crazy new talents and having nothing to do with education or birth...