Word: individualistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unreconstructed individualist, Still pours odium and contempt on his contemporaries, scorns their "witless parodies" and "capering before an expanse of canvas...
...Aalto remains a prickly individualist who drinks hard, works all hours of the day and night. Once while designing Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Baker House in 1947, he turned out the whole staff at midnight, for three hours paced the office floor without a word, thinking furiously, finally dashed off the drawings. Believing that "the Creator created paper for making architectural drawings," Aalto refuses to open mail, replies only to telegrams. Accepting a commission to act as a consultant to Helsinki's city planning commission, he insisted on a clause that the city fathers would not badger...
Roman Catholicism has had relatively little success in the Canadian North, says Marsh, partly because of the difficulty of attending Mass, partly because the Eskimo is an individualist. "He just won't let anyone tell him what to do. He doesn't readily subject himself to the discipline required of a Catholic." The Roman Catholic mission at Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, has not made a convert in 30 years, and the Eskimos of northern Quebec, which is well saturated with Catholic missionaries, are 98% Anglican...
...program launched by Red China's Mao Tse-tung with the avowed intention of producing citizens "capable of more and harder work in China's socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just then I looked down at the responsible comrades of our country...
...conscious image of higher learning, with our portrait of the academic world in contrast and conflict with the materialistic marketplace. Yet if we look carefully we will see that the university is actually an extended preparation for the marketplace, and that the scholar is in fact the last rugged individualist. Today's professor inherits from the merchant prince and the captain of industry, not from the bespectacled dreamer of myth and joke...