Word: conformance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prone to be too complacent, too willing to conform, too ready to settle for the tried and proven," says John D. Rockefeller III, who maintains an active interest as board chairman of the foundation erected on his grandfather's wealth. "We tend to hang back, responding slowly to change, often with too little, and sometimes too late. Rather than venture, we dwell on the problems of yesterday, neglectful of the new needs of today and the impatient future...
...Mahoney said last night that "This man [Rudolph] doesn't seem to know what he wants to do." According to Mahoney, Rudolph told MBTA officials that the rotary would be permanent, not temporary. The MBTA then spent $8,000 to change switches for their trackless trolleys to conform with the new pattern. It will now cost them another $10,000 to change the switches back...
...anything, seems too comfortable during the numbers. With the dialogue, he is merely pedestrian, and consequently misses the big laughs. Ronni Lynn Unger, as Reno Sweeney, shares Kozol's virtues and his faults, except in one song, "I Get a Kick Out of You," which simply refuses to conform to her vocal talents. It's a great song; the result is unfortunate...
Today's Soviet citizen has not quite reached those heights, and does not breathe Trotsky's name. Nor does his society in any way conform to what Marx's followers set out to build...
...diet of banality and irrelevance which it is not worth the while of a child to learn or that of a teacher to teach." Of 32 different book series he had avail able in his classroom, the majority were more than ten years old. Creative children had to conform to the rigid thinking of teachers or face ridicule. He cites one gentle but emotionally disturbed boy who "drew lovely lyrical cows and pleasant horses lifting up their hooves to rub their noses" but only succeeded in throwing his art teacher into a tizzy. "Look at what he's done...