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...protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...
When it was suggested that more data could be found on his life in Who's Who in which he is listed, the poet, who doesn't conform in the slightest to the usual pictures of a poet, laughingly said, "Not only that, but I can clean skates with my teeth...
...world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with a pleasant, proper environment. But when the showdown came she streaked back to London to meet a chastened, honest Goldberg on his release, realized that only when she was with him was she in the thick of things...
...liberalism than for technical incompetence, and furthermore, Mr. Black's legal training and experience had been revealed as painfully unequal to his job on the nation's highest tribunal. Mr. Childs wrote that Justice Black's opinions often had to be rephrased by his colleagues to conform to Supreme Court standards; that he had been unable to carry his share of the Court's routine work; and that his presence thus had been "an acute discomfort and embarrassment" to his colleagues. Lawyers, who alone would be able to perceive awkwardness or incompetence in the text...
...Washington a committee of the National Education Association, after seeing President Roosevelt, indicated that the President would support his Committee's recommendations. And in Congress, Senator Harrison prepared to amend his Federal aid bill to conform to the Reeves proposals...