Word: heterodox
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However, Rudenstine said in his statement, "Weshould remember that former ministers who haveheld the post of preacher or minister at theUniversity--including Phillips Brooks--werestrongly criticized during their own time fortheological views that were considered by manypeople to be heterodox...
...structures. Kennedy's mind was extremely orderly, but his techniques in office were sometimes heterodox and unexpected. They might have struck an outsider as being somewhat chaotic. He constantly bypassed the chain of command. He telephoned Assistant Secretaries or lesser military officers in order to seek information he needed. His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, once remarked that the back door of the White House always seemed more open than the front door. He understood the dynamics of meetings, and sometimes mistrusted them as a way of doing business. He thought that his presence might intimidate people. He liked...
...course, there is a second universal religion in Africa-Islam-and Barrett figures its continent-wide increase at 4,784,000 people a year, of whom 6% are converts from other faiths. All of the church groups are prospering, he reports: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, "African Independent" and heterodox sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses...
...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