Word: conformists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Though the Piccirillis usually work together as "stone-masters," Attilio stands head and shoulders above his brothers as an individual artist. A classical conformist, he is a master of the human form. His figures have an impressive, if somewhat posed, nobility, and they are simply conceived and carried out. He designed Manhattan's imposing Maine Monument at Columbus Circle, its Firemen's Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting...
...Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist conscience," as Max Beerbohm calls it "which does make cowards...
Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...
...college, put her in high school there. But to his feverishly jealous eyes she continued to show more interest in men than in books. In an effort to make himself more presentable, Vridar joined a fraternity, went out for football, but he could not make himself a conformist. In the summer he and Xeloa hired themselves out on a ranch. In a way it was a relief to Vridar when he was drafted into the Army, a disappointment when the Armistice came before he was sent overseas. The War over, he got a job in a garage, slipped-gradually into...