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...Conformist. In Northampton, Mass., a Smith freshman scrawled as her denominational preference: "I like to be called Betty...
People who make quick, obvious answers and pass on to the next card are apt to be "conformist" types, anxious to be popular and avoid trouble. Those who see each blot as several different pictures are likely to have active and vivid emotions, while those who see shapes only in small details are often repressed...
take on foreign affairs? 15J"on-conformist Republican Wendell L. Willkie slugged that question at his own party's keynoter, Isolationist Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota. Speaking in Minneapolis, heart of supposedly Isolation country...
...conformist is George Tidd. Said he in 1929, when most utility men were singing other songs: "We are not community saviors. When we begin to talk to each other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...
...small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward thoughts on things now differ so greatly from the thoughts of people about me that if I should speak out I should offend or horrify them. I love these people, and I want to learn from them, so I keep my peace, which...