Word: conformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...efforts of several authors, or have been hacked piecemeal by the rewrite-men. The "character conflicts" are arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties and fine touches are deleted in a surpassingly stupid manner. This was only too painfully obvious to those who saw the screen version of "An American Tragedy" or who watched the final scene in the Hollywood conception of "A Farewell to Arms...
...government consciously dedicated to a faith in the inviolable sanctity of the individual human spirit. . . . We have builded a system of individualism. . . . The background of our American system is that we should allow free play of social and economic forces. . . . Social and economic solutions will not avail unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs...
...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...