Word: conformed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." There have been few periods in the history of this republic, I am inclined to think, when it has been more difficult to follow the injunction,-- "be not conformed to this world." Of course, I am not referring to trivial matters. I am not discussing external modes of behavior--manners and social customs. Superficial non-conformists are often spiritual slaves to a special set of ritualistic dogmas. A considerable degree of uniformity among a group of people in regard to everyday behavior...
...flee. Today there are many--many at least in appearances; one devil at the bottom of them all, perhaps, if your theology inclines you so to state the case of man's ever-recurring ills. Each worlds has its own formulas, its own incantations, its own tests of conformity, its own methods of excommunication. In some lands the more independent spirits are physically coerced if the social forces are not sufficiently powerful to keep the waiverer in line. In these countries where the improved modern methods of appealing to the mob coupled with the actual use of force have been...
...valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during that period was to incur a potent blast of hostil criticism from every side...
...paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...
What particularly impresses one on reading the Burlingham speech is not just the fact that here is a liberal Democratic lawyer standing in the way of a liberal Democratic president on the issue of whether the Supreme Court should be compelled at the point of a gun to conform to the liberal doctrines of the current majority in power. For the country seems pretty well agreed at the moment that the tribunal could shift a long way to she left and still sit on the right of the Administration's political philosophy. Rather what takes...