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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...
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...
...photographer does not strange his subject to conform to his interpretive feelings; instead he constantly observes and analyzes--trying to separate the essence of the subject from what exists physically before him. More specifically, he adjusts the camera angle to exclude distractions or include balancing space; selects a range of focus which best subordinates background to the subject; and controls exposure and lighting to balance highlights with shadows or to discard unnecessary texture as in this silhouette. And that control which is above all serviced for the photographer is the shutter please. A critical sense of timing in conjunction with...