Word: conformity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre and it may be the hand writing on the wall. Some years ago the Copley was forced to discard the plays of Shaw, Molnar, and other of the contemporary immortals, because Boston was uninterested. The company then turned to mystery plays and trivial fantasies in an attempt to conform with local dramatic appreciation. For a time it seemed that the venture would succeed. But that, too, has failed...
...Insti-ute, of Colonel John H. Price, president of Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...
...President Lowell once cogently observed: "As a people we have been law-abiding, not by compulsion from above, but from a sense of the fitness of things. The success of self-government is based on a confidence that one's neighbors will conform to the established rules of conduct, and anything that undermines that confidence strikes at the root of our civil life...
...name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories for other pictures. His best was Greed, based on McTeague, by Frank Norris. In his eagerness to make every job a masterpiece he consistently refused to conform to the commercial limitation of picture making. His films had to be cut to pieces to reduce them to program time. Producers became wary. His Wedding March, acclaimed by critics, was too expensive to yield profits. After he had spent many hundred thousand dollars directing Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly...
When every one of these tenets has been flagrantly violated, it is not only justifiable but imperative that some action be taken. In the case of the Widener scrubwomen, the violation involved discrepancies in money as well as conduct. Only by repairing both can the incident be made to conform to Harvard decency and morality...