Word: slavish
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Labeling Buckley's system as fascistic, Theodore M. Greene, Professor of Philosophy at Yale, wrote that "It would become propaganda, dull, slavish, and uninspired, for the teacher's one concern would be orthodox conformity...
Says Van Dusen: "Let us be clear what is required. Not an uncritical return to ancient days and old ways. Not the slavish reproduction in this modern time of many familiar features of earlier philosophy and social organization. Not the rejection or loss of a single sound achievement of recent centuries...
Last year I thought the CRIMSON was a good Thing. An intelligently liberal peeper with high standards of journalism, and a lot of real verve in their writing. This year I am disappointed. The verve has decayed to smugness and smirks. The intelligent liberalism has degenerated into a slavish following of the Democratic Party line, and your editorial page reeks with complacency...
...Brand New Horror. To Delacroix, color was a means of expressing thought and feeling; he saw no point in mixing his pigments in slavish imitation of natural hues. And in time his heresy became modernist orthodoxy. Though his contemporaries sometimes considered him just a prodigiously talented nut, posterity had, in fact, carried his philosophy of art to a subjective extreme that would have left Delacroix himself speechless with horror...
...fish. Der Harootian had deliberately exaggerated the size of the fish and taken vast liberties with the shape of the bird. The fact that they seemed far less abstract than they were in actuality was a measure of the sculptor's power to create illusion without slavish copying...