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...course, dress at Harvard is a fairly static, conformist affair. Zoot-suits, funnel shapes, and one-button California drapes were never in order: it's always been (or at least, for as long as we can recall) the three-button jacket with sparely padded shoulders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Fashions Veer Yet Closer to Edward VII; Distinctive Ectomorph Holds Style Spotlight As Male Goes Stringbean | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...intelligently discuss both the moral strategic requirements of the situation. But here is just as little to be gained from Mr. Moore's assumption that the McCarthyites will respond to sweetness and light, as there is in Professor Struik's assumption that a Communist is merely a persecuted non-conformist. It is unfortunate that last Wednesday evening it was left up to a young Yale law student to seek to give this problem the thinking it deserves. Mr. Lowenstein was alone in attempting to weigh the social good against the social ill that is likely to flow from a particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CLOUDED PATH | 3/11/1953 | See Source »

Richard C. Carrol, associate dean of the college, states it broadly: "Unlike Harvard, Yale does not encourage individualism. The non-conformist is tolerated, allowed to go his own way, but he is generally ignored. The result in the profile of the Yale graduate is more readily describle...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Seventy-Five | 2/10/1953 | See Source »

After his inauguration last month, Governor Aloé quickly found his tongue in public. Vociferously he cried that he will not tolerate any sub-bureaucrat "who does not think as the governor thinks." He especially concentrated his conformist zeal on the brainwashing of schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Peroncito, the Brainwasher | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia is a virtuoso who makes each of his books an experiment in a different literary manner. In The Woman of Rome, it was gritty realism; in The Conformist, political allegory; in Conjugal Love, a fine-threaded analysis of human passion. An earlier Moravia novel now published in the U.S. for the first time, The Fancy Dress Party, shows him in still another manner; it seems a deliberate attempt to recreate that gay mixture of political satire and opera bouffe which make Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma a masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Stendhal's Shadow | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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