Word: conformance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech before an audience of 2,000, the President discussed the role of the intellectual in the complex society of 1966. He argued equably that dedicated men of education must indeed search for the truth but must also understand that if the truth does not conform with their opinions, truth itself is not altered. Said Johnson: "More than one scholar has learned how deeply frustrating it is to try to bring purist approaches to a highly impure problem. They have learned that criticism is one thing, diplomacy another. They have learned to fear dogmatism in the classroom as well...
...upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own," refused to sign autographs because "I owe the public the same thing it owes me-nothing." As a coach, Russell admits, he will have to improve his public relations. "But I won't conform to anybody's code of behavior," he insists. "My name is still William Felton Russell. I'm not going to sell my soul...
Rating himself on a liberal-radical-militant scale, Epps opts for radical. Harvard has applied no pressure on him to conform to the conservative stereotype of a college dean. "I do what my conscience leads me to do with the knowledge that I will accept the consequences of my actions," he says. "Some say now that I'm a dean I should work to consolidate my power and work on Negro affairs, but that is not my moral philosophy. I will support all movements for social change because there is not much hope of moving the Negro into the twentieth...
...World War II frogman, called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform to the flunk quota. Ponder refused: "I won't do it. I won't permit it to be done." He was thereupon flunked as an unsatisfactory teacher; his contract lapses in June...
...festivals, sponsored by Adams, Dunster, Leverett, and Quincy Houses and the Yard, conform to no set pattern...