Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point in her career, Dylana Jenson is the happy product of what may be described as benevolent parental interference or, as her father Lee (a freelance writer in Van Nuys, Calif.) calls it, "maverick management." When Dylana (named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas) was eight and learning the Mendelssohn concerto, her teacher ruled that she was not ready to master the ricochet technique (bouncing the bow on the strings) required in the work. Her parents decided otherwise. "Dylana knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher...
Ever since its founding in 1852, Antioch College has been a maverick. It was a pioneer in admitting women and blacks, adopting work-study methods of education and including students on policymaking committees. Now that relative calm has returned to most American schools, Antioch is still out of sync. Its main campus in rural Yellow Springs, Ohio, has been shut down for three weeks, and it is so divided by factional strife that many students and teachers question whether the college can survive. Says one disgruntled faculty member: "In the '50s, Antioch was considered one of the leading colleges...
...usually ranges from 25-to-l to 34-to-l, depending on how many other union chiefs are present to vote down Jerry Wurf. While that may be an exaggeration, the 54-year-old Wurf, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is certainly a maverick in the stolid hierarchy of organized labor. He has bucked the AFL-CIO high command on such issues as the 1972 election (Wurf was strong for George McGovern, while the federation observed a pro-Nixon neutrality) and the Viet Nam War (he repeatedly opposed council resolutions in support...
Something of a maverick nuclear strategist, Iklé has specialized in the technical and political problems of arms control. He is credited with devising the "permissive action link," a top-secret device for making it physically impossible to arm a nuclear weapon without a release signal from a remote authorizing source. He questions what he calls the "obsolete dogmas" of U.S. nuclear strategy, specifically the idea that the U.S. missile forces must stand ready to be launched at a moment's notice from land or sea, and be capable of destroying much of the Soviet population. Instead of maintaining...
...vegetarian--he is a warrior. The natural world of predator and prey is his pantheon: the cactus, rattlesnake, coyote, mountain lion--all of which are equal to man. Perhaps most Western of all, Don Juan says that he belongs to no social group. He is the supreme individual, the maverick we all are in our fantasies...