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Classifying the present college generation as silent, apathetic, conformist, or security-minded is the most chic of today's intellectual fashions. Now, Richard Frede, a Yale graduate of about four years back, has contributed as his first novel an expose dissection of what he terms our "IBM generation...
...neighboring gang. This rings truer to the spirit of the Bronze Age than Theseus' self-conscious habit of consulting his destiny every 15 minutes like a watch. While the heroes of the classic tragedies inevitably yield to their fate, Author Renault's Theseus seems a proto-conformist in his anxiety to learn and submit to the will of the gods...
...reality. "Let a man reserve a good appetite for his peck of dirt," he wrote, "and expect his chief wealth in unwashed diamonds." At 23, Thoreau was already grappling with the central dilemma of his life, how to know himself and be himself under the raised eyebrow of conformist society: "It is always easy to infringe the law-but the Bedouins of the desert find it impossible to resist public opinion...
...greatest social hazard for a Horace Mann student is being different. Clothes are particularly conformist and fadish. To school the girls wear skirts and blouses or sweaters, and whatever type of shoes is the rage that year. Boys wear sport shirts or sweaters and "drapes"--slightly tapered, flannel slacks. Suit jackets and ties are never seen during school hours...
...Royal Soap Opera." Timed for the visit, major articles reflecting British criticism of the monarchy broke in the Satevepost ("Does England Really Need a Queen?") and Look (a tired rehash called "Queen Elizabeth . . . Her Poor Public Relations"). The Satevepost (that "notoriously conformist family magazine," pouted London's New Statesman) stirred up a stew in the British press, notably for its author, former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished...