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...forced from without to conform and from within to rebel, Lindner holds, man makes a compromise: "He rebels within the confines of conformity, he discharges his protest within the limits set by the social order that he has permitted to be erected around him." In a special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...
...modern society Dr. Lindner sees "nothing which does not require the young to conform, to adjust, to submit." Along with religion and education he lumps social work, which aims to smooth rough-edged personalities so that they will not rub too harshly on their fellows; also philosophy, recreation and pediatrics: "Each is infused with the rot-producing idea that the salvation of the individual, and so of society, depends upon conformity and adjustment." Thus, in harsher terms, rebellious Psychologist Lindner reaches much the same diagnosis as Social Scientist David Riesman (TIME, Sept. 27), who calls the pattern of the times...
...their duties as citizens"), the Five Disciplines of President Ho ("Newspapers must support the peace policy"), and the Ten Disciplines of the Viet Minh army ("Troops are forbidden to be dissolute"). One day the men with the megaphones instructed the Hanoiese to set their clocks back one hour, to conform to Peking time...
...Century Capitalist Revolution (Harcourt, Brace; $3), is that "no adequate study of twentieth-century capitalism exists . . . No one, it seems, has seriously undertaken to restate the actual practice of American capitalism as it has developed since, let us say, 1930, describing its operations and results, and readjusting theories to conform to fact...
...they showed him a big map of the U.S. divided into zones to prove that Bethlehem's and Youngstown's markets did not overlap. Barnes took one look, then launched into a 15-minute speech pointing out that the map was gerrymandered and did not conform to market facts. The steel company lawyers then pointed out that Youngstown is the sole manufacturer of four categories of steel products, and Bethlehem of 20. Only in twelve of these categories, said the lawyers, do the two companies overlap. True, said Barnes, but on an industry-wide basis those twelve account...