Word: conformism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to dismiss the free enterprise zone plan out of hand because it does not conform to traditional Democratic ideas of how unemployment should be confronted. Reagan, however, is not about to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, and realistically, Congress is not about to pass it. The people who are suggesting enterprise zones were elected with a mandate to change the New Deal approach to social services. The conservative plan may fail totally, and then we'll be rid of it, but as long as it has noble intentions--as this one seems to--it should be allowed to fail honestly...
Harvard faces a January 18 deadline for reaching a satisfactory compromise with nearly 200 residents who have asked the commission in a petition to block construction until Harvard revamps the University Place design to conform with their concerns for the preservation of their neighborhood...
HAVING WANDERED from tradition with Ophelia, the production really takes off for parts unknown in its Hamlet. Cain describes the Prince in program notes as "always living at the limit of his destiny," a character who "stretches himself to and beyond his limits to make the world conform to his vision of it." Hamlet chooses once and for all to be rash, Cain says, in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy--which, incidentally, he reads...
There he is in Taxi Driver, an ex-Marine from the Midwest who takes a job driving cabs at night because he can't sleep and because he can't find a real life. The city won't let him in even though he'd like to conform, and the fever builds first in his belly and then in his head, making him restless like an animal and nervous like a killer. He hates New York with Biblical fury. Its livid neons, the gaudy robes of the pimps, and the twisting, seething shadows obsess him with a vision of hell...
Since 1962 most states, and the federal courts, have adopted variants of a model developed by the American Law Institute. Commonly referred to as the Brawner rule, it acquits a defendant who lacks "substantial capacity" either to know right from wrong or to conform to the law. This is the test that will be used in Hinckley's trial...