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...left me with a regenerated faith in the people's ability to respond and to make a very determined President conform to the rule...
Since that time, the Commission has decided that the windows do not conform to the 18th century architecture of the district. And so $18,000 in windows sit in a Minneapolis warehouse. Hall commented: "I admit I was wrong. I goofed...
...behind closed doors. His bar talk is full of clinging, self-conscious poses--the manner that the most pathetic clowners acquire in adolescence: They learn to copy bravado, but are sensitive enough to see its hollowness. They end up parodying themselves. Charlie's caught between outside pressure to conform to what traditionally held the neighborhood together, and peer pressure; between the pillars of his heritage and the way of life seductively decaying around him. He emerges vain, hypocritical and childish, sinning with scared, hellish abandon and giving only enough of himself to be self-serving. People finally have to suffer...
...currently director of student teaching at Simmons College, said that the Phi Delta Kappa's executive board suspended the Harvard society in January 1973 when Harvard submitted the names of several women for membership. The international board informed Harvard that its chapter would be expelled if it did not conform to the male-only policy...
Grillmen, "window girls" (order takers) and other hired hands must conform to strict rules. Men must keep their hair cropped to military length, and their shoes (black only) highly polished. Women must wear dark low shoes, hair nets and only very light makeup. Viewing the results, Harvard Business School Professor Theodore Levitt describes McDonald's as "a machine that produces, with the help of totally unskilled machine tenders, a highly polished product. Everything is built integrally into the machine itself, into the technology of the system. The only choice available to the attendant is to operate it exactly...