Word: conformist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conant declared that "whether Protestant, Catholic, or Jew, active church-member or non-conformist, almost every American believes that human life is sacred." This is the ultimate basis of our democratic creed--the dividing line that separates "the believers in a free democracy from the adherents to the Soviet or fascist doctrines...
...University stood solidly hostile. Dean bender emphasized that "the real purpose seems to be to intimidate people. If the Barnes Bill existed, it couldn't be enforced, but it could very well make teachers timid, cautions, and conformist when what we need today is a constantly vigorous independent outlook...
Like Poet T. S. Eliot, Rouault is a pioneer in art who calls himself "a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt. . . ." The old man (75) sees little of young modern artists, some of whom lack his own highly traditional training. Discussing them recently, he was heard to mutter: "Why don't they begin at the beginning...
Sinclair Lewis gave the world its classic picture of the American conformist. Whether he was known as Babbitt, Doc Kennicott, Joe Doakes or the great American boob, this monster was terrible, and to escape him (or his wife) the intellectuals of the 1920s fled from Main Street...
...Conformist. In Northampton, Mass., a Smith freshman scrawled as her denominational preference: "I like to be called Betty...