Word: deviationism
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"The logical extreme of this opinion would be the conviction that any deviation in either direction from the statistical average is unadmirable . . . We are . . . more inclined to boast how many Americans go to college than to ask how much the average college education amounts to; how many people read books...
In 1642, the three-year college course was a strictly confined, minutely planned curriculum. In his first year the student of 1642 took Logic and Physics on Monday and Tuesday, Greek Grammar on Wednesday, Hebrew Grammar on Thursday, Rhetoric on Friday and Divinity Catechetical, History and Nature of Plants on...
Anarchic Humanism. Bernard Sands, it turns out, is a homosexual and almost proud of it. Though his deviation has come as a late discovery, it suits his Gide-like view of himself as an "anarchic humanist." Living by the code that "happiness should be respected in any guise," he has...
RUMANIA-Ana Pauker, 58, porcine First Lady of Communism reigned in Red Rumania as Foreign Minister and Politburocrat; more than any other Rumanian Red, was the link between Moscow and Bucharest. Began sliding last month (TIME, June 9) when accused of "crimes against the state." Confessed to deviation both right...
Thirty-five-year-old Novelist Bazin may have a sneaking sympathy for his hero. As a youngster, he took his father's car, skidded into a tree, went through the windshield headfirst, and spent two years in an asylum for "pathological deviation of intellectual kind." There, however, whatever resemblance...