Word: conformist
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...taught wolf traits, especially an ear-splitting howl; and on the last day of camp, they take turns baying at the moon, while their proud parents look on, secure in the knowledge that camp has made their little boy just like all the other little boys, i.e., as conformist as a wolf...
...problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...
...Seasons might have taken its theme from Shakespeare's "Every subject's duty is the King's but every subject's soul is his own." Torn between duty and conscience is Sir Thomas More, played by Emlyn Williams. There is fresh comedy in the conformist cry for nonconformity as raised by A Thousand Clowns. As a nonworking anti-square, Jason Robards Jr. is supported by a prize cast of plodballs. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is baited with laughs, and Barbara Bel Geddes hooks every one, as this fun-fest nears the 700-performance mark...
...about qualifies me as an organization man right there." Marks's organization man is anybody who will not rock the boat, either from fear of being noticed or hope of future pelf. But by the time Mandel is through with him, he has become a somewhat more complex conformist. At the outset Marks is a reservist with a wry eye for the shorebound "aye, aye" jargon of the peacetime Navy and a fondness for clean shirts and amenable girls. When a Navy pilot at Sims Field (near Jacksonville) commits suicide, Marks is detailed to make a routine investigation...
...incredibly simple for an incompetent to write an experimental play these days, for one need only gather up the familiar themes and put them into a gaudy collage. The themes by now are well-established: crude irreverance for religion, farcical treatment of patriotism, glorification of the non-conformist, and above all, desecration of the rational, the normal, the commomplace. In "The Two-Headed Baby" Andrews doesn't miss a trick...