Word: non-conformist
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Dietz says of his years at Harvard, "I learned that you can be a non-conformist and still be accepted." Then he learned that you can't be at the Business School. His mother urged him to go, and he went, unecstatically...
...then it generally becomes apparent that he could have said it far more clearly. Desan says in The Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, "Sartre's book is badly constructed; indeed, it is uselessly obscure and interminable. Our author is definitely at the point where he can afford to be non-conformist to the extreme, leaving just enough intelligibility so that the conformist might attempt the struggle to understand...
John T. Edsall '23, professor of Biological Chemistry, H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, and Henry A. Murray '15, professor of Psychology, Emeritus, have sent letters to over 150 faculty members who are associated with liberal causes or known for non-conformist political views, inviting them to attend an organizational meeting Tuesday...
...incredibly simple for an incompetent to write an experimental play these days, for one need only gather up the familiar themes and put them into a gaudy collage. The themes by now are well-established: crude irreverance for religion, farcical treatment of patriotism, glorification of the non-conformist, and above all, desecration of the rational, the normal, the commomplace. In "The Two-Headed Baby" Andrews doesn't miss a trick...
...example, I doubt that even the most hardened non-conformist thinks I thought to be able to make any noise or any marks on paper I please, and say this is my individual way of expressing deep and profound thoughts...