Word: conformers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...editorial intimates that the original purpose of the Society has been abandoned "to conform to popular taste or in a search for novelty for its own sake." From the first it has been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...danger constantly threatening the vitality of the Society is that its original purpose may be forgotten either in an effort to conform to popular tastes or in a search for novelty for its own sake. The Society is the only first-hand contact offered the University layman with pioneer thought and technique in painting and sculpture and should shows be chosen for other reasons than that they are honest and capable examples of the forward line in contemporary art then the Society will lose its reason for being...
...publishing of the recent ruling earlier in the week has aroused considerable comment in the press due to utterances by various university heads, led by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to conform with the ruling, according to Dr. K. T. Compton, President. Dr. D. L. Marsh, president of Boston University, was the only nearby educational leader to issue a statement protesting the order...