Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remedy for this grievance lay in the individual department concerned. Sometimes such intellectual curiosity may be dilettantism, sometimes in part at least a good excuse for not doing something important but difficult. Yet it might be more valuable to try to satisfy it than to force a student to conform to regulations that may be rigid, outmoded, or unimaginative. Also, even dilettantism has its uses. We believe that departments often could provide means for students to follow more flexible programs, and that, when they cannot in conscience do so, they often could explain their refusals more personally and therefore more...
...whom I had this feeling." Joanna Steichen was 26 when she married Photographer Edward Steichen, who was 80. That was nine years ago,.and Mrs. Steichen says she has never regretted it. "In many ways," she observes, "the girls in such marriages want very much to conform, once they've done this nonconforming." Joanna is unusually honest about her marriage: "They-we-always marry great achievers. They are attracted to them by fear that they-we-won't accomplish much on our own. If you marry an ordinary slob, do it while you're young and innocent...
...society has progressed and science has pushed its way relentlessly forward, spiritualism has found less and less room on which to stand. We seem now to be at the point of destroying spiritualism--for it does not conform to the mechanistic, analystic, structured, impotent life that people in America lead...
...office building portion of the complex now appears to have been dropped, and the development will not be as massive as had been planned. Rufo Associates will build "just apartments" on the site, Rufo said. "We'll conform to the existing zoning regulations," he said...
Your humble reviewer understands that this selection does not exactly conform with current trends in cinema fashion, and the reader is urged to contribute his own choices. A reader's poll will be wrought from all submissions received before midnight, January 20th, and results will be printed in a later issue. Everybody in their heart of hearts has a ten-best-films list. Send yours in and be counted. The one below is listed more-or-less in order of personal preference...