Word: conformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of the intellectual is influential, it is also precarious. That the words "academic freedom" and "free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless-it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity...
...academic world, instead of turning outward to fight, has often turned in upon itself, seeking refuge in the collective sympathy of its own kind. This attitude produces a result more subtle than a refusal to testify and is insidious because of this subtlety. It is always easier to conform than to take an individual stand, and now it is easy to blame conformity on the so-called "climate of fear." University administrators, men of the academic world themselves, say that they would not fire this or that professor were it not for the dangerous publicity they would incur by retaining...
Will school history books now be rewritten to conform with Eccles' research? Probably not. Said Historian J. W. Chafe, author of the Manitoba high-school text: "It's going to be tough to write textbooks if every character in history is going to be debunked...
...Mark on the Church. Pius X was one of the strongest Popes since the Renaissance. He left his mark on the theology of the church by cracking down hard on "modernists," who meant to water down the traditional faith of the church to make it conform to prevailing scientific and rationalist concepts. He left his mark on modern liturgy by stimulating a return to Gregorian chant. He deeply influenced contemporary Catholic life by calling for frequent communion and for the early communion of children, by developing the laymen's movement known as Catholic Action...
King Arthur does not conform to common conceptions of opera, Baroque or modern, Really a heroic drama, it employs Purcell's music only at intervals, with the plot advanced by spoken poetry rather than the conventional recitative. Music serves for supernatural beings, battle and drinking songs, and ballet sequences, while most of the principal characters have speaking roles only...