Word: conformationally
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...major reason for the Southern students' failure to conform to a certain image lies in the fact that they actually represent a vast divergence of background. Historic sea ports like Charleston and New Orleans resemble Boston or a West Coast port; inland cities like Chattanooga or Atlanta are primarily industrial, farming, and rail centers...
...Georgian Russell blasts McElroy's comments as a "totalitarian" warning that service chiefs "must conform or be purged." Russell postpones scheduled appearances of other chiefs until McElroy gives "clear and unequivocal" assurances that they can testify "in complete candor without being threatened overtly or covertly...
This skirmishing between old and esteemed staffers delights the Times, which requires neither man to conform to any policy, including its own editorials. Says Reston: "Two guys looking at a story are bound to see it in different ways. Why not print both views? I think this is the proper expression of journalism...
...final analysis guides every life at Putney is the pressure of the community. The major paradox which the school faces is that any encouragement to think and act as an individual is balanced and sometimes negated by the ever-present collective opinion, with its subtle demand to conform. Although the problem of conformity is probably far smaller at Putney than at most schools, it is still not eliminated...
...possible liberalization could take the form of allowing the student to sign up for a smaller number of weekly meals if he wishes, to be taken at any time or to conform to his own class or sleeping schedule. The sure-winners in Lehman Hall could even profit from levying a small premium on the student who subscribes to such a program in the expectation of a much larger saving on meals he never eats anyway...