Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What made management sense to the U.N. did not conform to Asian values. Project members favored the imaginative and inspirational Schaaf. As for being palatable to the Communists, Schaaf says: "We want to produce irrigation and power for the people of the Mekong basin. We don't give a damn what their politics are." Representatives of the four nations refused to accept Umbricht, threatened to sever ties with the U.N. and hire their own man, an Asian from one of the Mekong countries. They finally approved William Van Der Oord, a U.N. official from The Netherlands-but only...
...squad meeting last Sunday, the players talked about the problem and decided that if the razzing affected their play, each member should cut his hair. Mike Janzeewski. Joe Stanislaw and Wayne Clapp got trimmed. George Yates will conform in a day or two and the rest of the long hairs will soon disappear...
...Homosexuality in America [Oct. 31]: As a clinical psychologist, I have begun to see how the pressures to conform force young humans to squeeze individual self into a mold created by a popular myth of what "other people" think, believe and feel. It is the myth of the normal person. Squeezing self into the mold painfully denies some of the natural individual self, and one is left vaguely resentful and unhappy...
...addition, the position paper voiced objections to the design and the designer of the new building. "In many ways the building as proposed does not even conform to the basic requirements of a decent environment," it charged. The paper called the design "a monument to the high-handed system of Harvard decision-making...
...same laugh that white people probably had when they watched Stepin Fetchit being "spooked" in the old movies. The point is that people have preconceived ideas of what's nice about animals and other people, and are happy when they can find images that conform...