How do Doris, Miss Rosius, and Dr. Muhlhoff and Use Mattreid and Feldmann demonstrate complacency in the novel, A Night in Distant Motion?

Doris, Miss Rosius, and Dr. Muhlhoff and Use Mattreid and Feldmann see and understand the evil perpetrated by the government, but they live in fear of having their convictions discovered and denounced. They perform their assigned tasks, raise their right arms in salute, and mouth the platitudes of the party, hoping no one notices their reticence.