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...upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign autographs because "I owe the public the same thing it owes me-nothing." As a coach, Russell admits, he will have to improve his public relations. "But I won't conform to anybody's code of behavior," he insists. "My name is still William Felton Russell. I'm not going to sell my soul...
Rating himself on a liberal-radical-militant scale, Epps opts for radical. Harvard has applied no pressure on him to conform to the conservative stereotype of a college dean. "I do what my conscience leads me to do with the knowledge that I will accept the consequences of my actions," he says. "Some say now that I'm a dean I should work to consolidate my power and work on Negro affairs, but that is not my moral philosophy. I will support all movements for social change because there is not much hope of moving the Negro into the twentieth...
...World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform to the flunk quota. Ponder refused: "I won't do it. I won't permit it to be done." He was thereupon flunked as an unsatisfactory teacher; his contract lapses in June...
...festivals, sponsored by Adams, Dunster, Leverett, and Quincy Houses and the Yard, conform to no set pattern...
...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...