Word: heterodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoot-out. Yet the greatest thinkers in history have all mused with considerable ambivalence over these very questions. If perhaps the MOVE members can be labled crazed psychotics, their ideas cannot be dismissed so easily. For this reason, Rizzo should have left them alone. Their weird antics and heterodox ideology should have been left as a reminder to us all that we can never be completely sure about the correctness of the direction in which we are all inescapably heading...
Academic freedom means that an individual can hold both an academic position and heterodox political opinions. On Friday, the only ones "hypocritically perverting" that "worthwhile ideal" were the editors of the Harvard Crimson. --Steven A. Benner
Reeves' methods have long been heterodox. He generally avoids the telephone ("You rarely get into digressions on the phone, and digressions are often the most useful"), and he does not join those colleagues who would cover up a public figure's private pecadilloes. (Ford Aide Robert Hartmann, he writes, was "nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor...
Dean Moses then overruled his own committee. Although he declared that the university had an "obligation to encourage . . . heterodox 'dangerous' thoughts," he decided that Shockley's course would be "polemical" and his qualifications to teach it "subject to doubts." Moses therefore ruled: "I will not authorize the course...
...heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything. In Herbert Armstrong's theology, unknown to much of his public, the British and the Americans are among the ten lost Hebrew tribes, destined to fight -and succumb to-a renewed Holy Roman Empire probably led by Germany. Then a Chinese-Russian alliance will fight the battle of Armageddon with the victor. At first, Herbert Armstrong predicted the beginning of the end for the late 1930s. The most recent Apocalypse...