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Spooky: I don't think that has anything to do with speed. I think America has always had this weird passivity. Think about the '50s with the McCarthy trials. Conformity was the rule of the day, and America is pretty conformist. That has nothing to do with whether the technology was there or not. These things were going on before there were TVs or anything. That's part of the Fabric of What's happening. The problem is instead of being able to use the fabric, to change and weave it to their own specifications, they'd rather just...
...there are two equally skilled employees, I would bet you that the one who is more conformist to what would be considered normal would get the job," he says...
...though, is the ultimate narrowness of the Harvard experience I have seen. When I return, I look forward to being a round peg in a college of square holes. Despite the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that have led us to Harvard, once here, our undergraduate experiences are remarkably conformist. This may be part of the College's mission, yet the lack of acknowledgment among students of this normalization strikes me now as I leave it for a year. Look around. People gather to watch the same shows and recommend the same Cores to one another. The mail centers overflow...
...year Harvard veteran, who previously held posts at Vassar and the University of Indiana, has trouble shaking the reputation he has earned in academic circles as a non-conformist and a firebrand...
...signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. "I don't think the MLA is the evil empire," says Alter, who maintains membership in both groups. "It's an umbrella organization. But academic people are conformist. With 30,000 people under one big top, you have a lot of conformism...