Word: conformists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is judgment passed in haste. For the fact is that there is another, more conformist time, and that is the present. The perpetrators are boutique hotels. Their seconders are the new breed of travel guides, which don't tell you about a destination so much as how to ignore its realities...
...terrible when I have a fire,” he says. One wall of the room is covered end to end with hundreds of 1960s and beat-movement books that rest on three connected bookshelves. Okay, so it’s not exactly the same ambiance that those non-conformist leftists of the early 20th-century coffee-houses had, but it’s close enough. The fashionably-late guests arrive at 45 past the hour, representing a melange of undergraduates, grad students, and professors ranging from Crimson columnist Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 to special guest Jeremy...
...just what Bob Avakian does in his memoir “From Ike to Mao and Beyond.” As you may have deduced from the title, the book traces Avakian’s transformation from an unenlightened bourgeois child—a product of those stiflingly conformist ’50s—to a revolutionary Maoist...
That is surely an apt subject for a movie--even, and especially, a popcorn movie. If a cheapo '50s fantasy called Invasion of the Body Snatchers could also be a rich parable of conformist paranoia, and if The Matrix could clue kids into mathematics and philosophy, then a film as bold and thoughtful as V for Vendetta is allowed to stoke a multiplex debate on the use and abuse of state power. The best works of popular art get to play by their own rules...
...says Ben-Shahar, who also teaches Psychology 1508: Psychology of Leadership, “but he was willing to learn from them.” Ben-Shahar says that anti-Summers faculty members “were not asking for a leader, they were asking for a spineless conformist, a pseudo-leader.” Ben-Shahar offered Summers an open invitation to lecture about lessons he learned while president. Now that’s positive...