Word: conformance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once lively seminar with Bickel had "gone flat." Recalls Bork: "When I asked him why, Bickel explained, 'It's because you're not saying those crazy things anymore.' I suddenly realized I'd basically adopted his position." He abandoned his belief that constitutional law could be made to conform to rigid ideological or economic principles. "I gave up trying to find bright lines. They're just not available...
...some ways American higher education mimics the fashion industry. There are top designers (Harvard, Yale and Stanford--Klein, Lauren and Kamali) and there are mediocre ones. Products (clothes, education), differ in quality and style, but they conform to certain conventions...
...from one extreme to another," he wrote John Jay in 1786. As for Madison, the Constitution's principal and most elegant-minded architect, his views were straight Enlightenment dogma. "Why has government been instituted at all?" he asked. "Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." Again: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary" -- a judgment of angels as much as people...
...such celebrity diners as Actor Carroll O'Connor, owner and occasional piano player at the Ginger Man, and cigar-puffing George Burns are willing to conform. "I'll do whatever the city wants," says O'Connor stoically. Debbie Parker, a ban supporter who has a water pistol emblazoned with the words STOP OR I'LL SHOOT, says, "Smokers have had a lack of consideration for others for a long time. Now the tables are turned." The Beverly Hills police -- famed for their vigilance in cracking down on jaywalking, illegal parking and attempted burglary -- are so far going slowly. They have...
Everyone is familiar with Ronald Reagan's hair, for example. The president is very conscious of his public image and knows that when people look at him, they also see the hair which abuts his face. Thus he has designed his hair to conform to the image he tries to project: large and well-oiled, it says, "This man is head of a large and well-oiled government...