Word: conformist
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...Automatic Controls is meant to have his own meter, but the main differences between the characters lie in typography: the president speaks in big square blocks, the advertising man in short, jagged lines. Jim Smalley, assistant director of sales promotion, has perhaps the most arresting-looking pattern: am a conformist (they say}-/ love what I think they think I should; I am doing just what is expected Oh God, let them notice me draw upon me fully I so so want to rise...
...against them, he said, the "highest echelons" of each company "bear a grave responsibility." Most of the defendants, said the judge, "were torn between conscience and an approved corporate policy, with the rewarding objectives of promotion, comfortable security and large salaries-in short, the organization or company man, the conformist." Even to those whom he did not send to jail, the judge gave no verbal mercy. When the lawyer for M. A. deFerranti, a former G.E. manager, tried to defend his client, Judge Ganey snapped: "But here again is the classical company man. He balmed his conscience for a salary...
Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...
...example, I doubt that even the most hardened non-conformist thinks I thought to be able to make any noise or any marks on paper I please, and say this is my individual way of expressing deep and profound thoughts...
...Harvard's scholarship holders came from families with incomes below $4,000. Worse, such colleges' "reliance on test scores and high school grades has led to a relatively narrow kind of talent-searching-the search for good grade-getters." And grade-giving usually favors the conformist, says Holland, not the independent creator, who may have far more potential talent...