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This unwillingness to become involved has been recognized and labelled by Soviet commentators as indifferentizm (indifference to things political, and a failure to conform to the party-defined values and patterns of thought). It expreses a desire on the part of many young people to be left alone, to be free from the constant exhortations and demands imposed by the party. "Many of our young people declare that they want to keep out of politics. They wouldn't need to bother with politics in the West, they say"--so complains the official organ of the East German youth organization, Junge...
More significant yet in a border state with an uneven record in race relations was enactment of 1) a limited open-housing statute, 2) a measure broadening the existing public-accommodations law to conform with federal legislation, and 3) repeal of the state's 306-year-old ban on racial intermarriage...
...Basque troublemakers are trying to promote-an independent Basque nation-is rapidly dying in Spain. The Basques, once thought of as an exotic race of faithful shepherds living in the remote fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words...
Jacob admits that his formula is not flawless. Some crowds will not conform to the norm. If a crowd is composed primarily of women, for instance, some allowance must be made for greater hip girth. Or if the crowd is largely coeducational, he adds, it is conceivable that people might press closer together just...
...constellations of personality attributes and activities which are prestigeful. There is no one pattern that characterizes a student as a "big man on campus." As a matter of fact, prestigeful student roles are de-emphasized. The net result is freedom to be oneself. Therefore, pressures to change, to conform to some pattern, are not great...