Word: conformance
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...capitalists on a capitalistic order to hire a Communist as professor of Economics. But Harvard has achieved noteworthy success in obtaining professors who are willing to examine radical sociological theories with open minds. There are few who will rate a student's intelligence low because he does not conform to their beliefs...
...body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John 22nd issued an edict in 1322 forbidding all singing in parts and all extemporaneous ornamentation of the music. The written scores were made to conform to the rules, but the singers went on singing what they liked...
...determine. The issue rests on the fact that authorities of the City College saw fit to consider personal opinions sufficient ground for dismissal, for they made no other reasons public. Obviously this is a violation of academic freedom, in that a Faculty member is forced either to conform to the made of thinking prescribed by the government of the City of New York, or to hand in his resignation...
...pity that the matter cannot be settled immediately and forever. This is impossible. It may be that in the picture the gaunt spinster is the one who jabs Jenny. But the prizes for endings will not be awarded until Thanksgiving and the prize-winners need not conform with the picture. The only satisfactory ending for The Phantom of Crestwood would be to borrow the glass barrel in Six Hours to Live (see col. 1), allow Jenny Wren to settle the matter herself...
Actually Comrade Josef Stalin, as Secretary of the Party, was bending and shaping the Right and Left factions to conform to his "party line." Leaks from the Kremlin pictured Right Communists as urging "a further retreat to private trade in foodstuffs and essentials" while Left Communists urged "a further advance, based if necessary on confiscation of farm products." In the end Comrade Stalin, whose "party line" is broad enough to touch both these extremes when he dictatorially pleases, succeeded in shushing all factions, retaining his control of Russia...