Word: conforming
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...enriches our understanding of the tensions of the fourth book, written when Horace had lived past the age of decorous love (by his earlier standard) but still had the same desires; furthermore, it reveals that the recurrent seasonal metaphors are cyclic reminders of the need to conform decorously to life's changing demands. Hence, carpe diem is not a simple invitation to license, but a complex call for infinite attention to each day's new proprieties...
What the Administration seems to be driving toward is an economy in which, without express legislative controls, both big business and big labor will be under continuous pressure from the White House to conform their price and wage policies to the "public interest"-however that may be denned by the Government at the time. If so, the Administration maybe letting itself in for repeated off-the-cuff rulings that can hardly fail in the long run to prove contradictory, chaotic or ineffectual...
...AMERICANS. "Are Americans human beings? What I mean is, are they members of the human race in terms of what we usually mean by the words? Every time I see an American, I wonder if he is trying to be a complete nonconformist or trying on the contrary to conform to something unknown...
...next 50 years, Carnegie intends to go on finding bad problems and good men, shifting its fire where needed. "Conditions upon the erth inevitably change," wrote Andrew Carnegie in his favorite simplified spelling. "I giv my trustees full authority to change policy or causes . . . They shall best conform to my wishes by using their own judgment...
...centuries of conditioning by men, women don't have confidence in them-selves," Mrs. Wheeler said. The position of women will not advance, she added, until women are willing to take stands and make decisions for themselves, without first consulting scholarly or neighborly opinion. Because the pressures to conform are much greater on women than on men (witness suburban motherhood, for example) women need more courage than men in order to declare themselves in a given situation...