Word: groupthink
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Long the targets of novelists, sociologists and other worriers, the organization man and "groupthink" came under heavy fire last week from the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Meeting at Washington's Catholic University for the annual bishops' conference, 227 prelates urged a rededication to the principle and practice of personal responsibility, in order to halt "the seemingly inexorable march toward the automation of human beings and the steady loss of that freedom which is man's distinctive attribute...
...cheese-dip party on succeeding weekends. Cries a Chicago suburban woman: "I'm so sick and tired of seeing those same faces every Friday and Saturday night, I could scream." In Kansas City's suburban Overland Park, three jaded couples formed an "Anti-Conformity League" to fight groupthink, disbanded it soon afterward because, explains ex-Schoolteacher Ginger Powers (two children), "it was getting just too organized to be anti-conformist...