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...weighty or highly modulated object. Her selections seem meant to prove that in the past decade sculpture has advanced historically by denying its own material essence. Moreover, "with a few exceptions," she declares, "present-day sculpture has generally rejected anthropomorphic, transcendental, nostalgic and metaphysical content." If sculptors do not conform to these norms of up-to-dateness, they do not get through the Whitney door...
...Crimson's action in withdrawing the advertisement raises larger questions about the nature of Crimson policy on advertising. A newspaper should not demand that advertisers conform to its editorial positions, and The Crimson will continue to accept advertising from groups and individuals with views radically different from our own. But there are times when the line must be drawn...
Rogers C.B. Morton, brought into the White House as a "political" aide in the old sense of the word, will live in both worlds for the simple reason that somebody has to. So that he may conform to the new codes of rectitude, bookkeepers are now devising formulas to divide up his time, his travel, his words, his work between the payrolls of the Ford Campaign Committee and the White House...
...aside from being wary of the abuses of romance as propaganda, Marxism can probably benefit from learning about the people who create new romances according to old patterns, by looking at the way they diverge from and conform to old patterns. It is an indication of how important romance is to modern political ideology that most modern Chinese short stories are romances (with an underlying revolutionary message, of course). William Morris, on the other hand, a radical socialist, didn't seem to be aware of the uses of his romances to inculcate upper-class values, and Frye says that...
...clerk of the House. There was the rub. According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number of Senators, including Edward Kennedy, quickly said that they would introduce bills this week to conform to the ruling and preserve the commission's watchdog status over campaign spending...