Word: groupthink
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...your-face politics of the street was uncomfortable for someone from a family who didn't like conflict of any kind. "If you were not with the pack, there was no room for you--all the gradations were lost," says a contemporary. "But he was skeptical of the groupthink; he stayed independent of the mob." One reason some classmates didn't realize how bright he was, argues Birge, was that he was glib and "almost always funny. He would essentially manipulate the environment to make it less confrontational and avoid conflict...