Word: conformists
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...civil rights movement. This little gem echoes decades of social change yet never loses focus on the peculiar equilibrium between servant and served. It reaches a peak when the old woman goes to a banquet honoring Martin Luther King Jr. -- an event her liberal but conformist | businessman son (Ray Gill) refuses to attend -- and cannot quite bring herself to invite the driver to accompany her until the moment they reach the hotel, when his dignity compels him to refuse...
...PROBLEM with being a non-conformist is that if you are successful at it, everyone wants to imitate you. If you dare to drop out, do it quietly; otherwise the entire art-world will come toppling after you like lemmings...
This portrait of the student as conformist and joiner provides a dramatic contrast with the bitterly anti-Establishment days of the Viet Nam War and its aftermath. Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were...
...more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University of Liberia was not an option. Still others wax "cosmopolitan" (borrowing Milton M. Gordon's term, read anglo-conformist) partaking of that sacred cultural narcotic: interracial mating. These equally counterproductive behavioral patterns serve predictable cathartic functions. For example, the word racism has immense deflective utility. It is frequently an excellent semantic device for obfuscating the internal roots of group failings. Thus it may facilitate avoiding personal responsibilities...
...prefers not to think of himself as British, which, as he once declared in an essay, he equates with being imperialistic, conformist and arrogant. Being English, on the other hand (tolerant, humane, in harmony with green nature), is all right. He accuses his own generation, particularly the writers, artists and performers, of "selling the past," neglecting serious work in a scramble for media success. Partly as a result, standards have crumbled, and the younger generation is "growing up cultureless...