Word: contrarian
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Many Germans welcome the change. The 1960s and '70s were a particularly intense time in Germany as young people threw off the social straitjacket of the 1950s and the legacy of Nazism. Fischer, who among other assorted jobs worked as a taxi driver, brought some of that contrarian spirit into German political life, famously clashing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. Schröder was not a radical but shared his cohort's progressive outlook and freewheeling lifestyle. (Schröder and Fischer have eight marriages between them.) "They all wore suits and ties...
Although several UC members had expressed interest in the post only a few days earlier, only Capp and UC veteran and contrarian Jason L. Lurie ’05 accepted nominations...
Several UC members—including Lurie—said that the unexpectedly high number of votes for council contrarian and outgoing senior Lurie reflected disenchantment with the circumstances surrounding the election process and the resignation of former UC Vice President Ian W. Nichols...
...decision by Ian W. Nichols ’06 to resign on Sunday as Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President was the best possible outcome for both the UC and the student body at large. As expected, Nichols turned out to be a contrarian Vice President, with a vision for the Council that did not line up with what the rest of the UC Executive Board had in mind. If the UC’s top leadership expected Nichols to be the same sort of Vice President as former VP Michael R. Blickstead ’05—a former...
...PRINCIPLED CONTRARIAN...