Word: conformist
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...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. Playwriting about nonconformism is the conformist thing to do these days. Fortunately, Herb Gardner brings verve, humor, and a freshly observant eye to the subject, and his cast, headed by Jason Robards Jr., could scarcely be improved upon...
...change is inevitable, and that it is the sacrifice we make for progress. Each element is vital: change because it is comforting to think that things are worse, or more difficult for us than our ancestors. How pleasant for the intellectual to realize that everyone about him is more conformist than their parents, and that modern taste is more subject to opinion leaders than ever before. Riesman did not discover conformity, but he gave it the respectable opprobrium of a scientific title and a social science theory. As important is the inevitability of change, for we are safely released from...
...student who ranks first in his class may be genuinely brilliant. Or he may be a compulsive worker or the instrument of domineering parents' ambitions or a conformist or self-centered careerist who has shrewdly calculated his teachers' prejudices and expectations and discovered how to regurgitate efficiently what they want. Or he may have focused narrowly on grade-getting as compensation for his inadequacies in other areas, because he lacks other interests or talents or lacks passion and warmth or normal healthy instincts or is afraid of life. The top high school student is often, frankly, a pretty dull...
...pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed and genuinely pure. Their plaint is that life is fraudulent, corrupt, conformist, lonely, sad and beastly. The Old Exquisites proclaimed art for art's sake. By finding life devoid of ends and meanings, the New Exquisites proclaim art for the artist's sake as the only alternative and the only affirmation...
...Maryland boy who acts, paints, writes wild science-fiction, charts the orbits of imaginary planets and understandably gets middling grades. "An individual fighting a conformist world," he is now on his way to Harvard College as one of 25 students picked for "exceptional creative performance...