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...CONFORMIST (376 pp.)-Alberto Moravia - Farrar, Straus & Young...
...Wall Street and in a Baltimore firm which produced color charts, had come from relatives too. (Grandfather Orr was president of the New York Life Insurance Co.) Until he was 37, Alexander did not protest; he had attended Harvard, served in World War I, and entered business-a conformist in a Brooks Brothers suit...
...Lewis' works have become period pieces. But in his prime, Lewis had no peer as a knocker of "homo Americanibus." Sinclair Lewis wrote mainly about one man, George Follansbee Babbitt, of Zenith, the Zip town. George Babbitt was a helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams. He was an adolescent...
...Conformist. In Detroit, George Taylor, 56, petitioned to change his name to Pappados on grounds that his Greek friends could not pronounce Taylor...
...conformist always looks like the man next to him. When in college, he dresses in grey flannels, tweed or seer-sucker jackets, and white bucks. His shirt is buttoned to the neck, and he would no more think of going without a tie than he would of wearing many-hued socks with a tailored suit...