Word: non-conformist
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...intelligently discuss both the moral strategic requirements of the situation. But here is just as little to be gained from Mr. Moore's assumption that the McCarthyites will respond to sweetness and light, as there is in Professor Struik's assumption that a Communist is merely a persecuted non-conformist. It is unfortunate that last Wednesday evening it was left up to a young Yale law student to seek to give this problem the thinking it deserves. Mr. Lowenstein was alone in attempting to weigh the social good against the social ill that is likely to flow from a particular...
Richard C. Carrol, associate dean of the college, states it broadly: "Unlike Harvard, Yale does not encourage individualism. The non-conformist is tolerated, allowed to go his own way, but he is generally ignored. The result in the profile of the Yale graduate is more readily describle...
Conant declared that "whether Protestant, Catholic, or Jew, active church-member or non-conformist, almost every American believes that human life is sacred." This is the ultimate basis of our democratic creed--the dividing line that separates "the believers in a free democracy from the adherents to the Soviet or fascist doctrines...
...Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist conscience," as Max Beerbohm calls it "which does make cowards...
Nearing in a non-conformist and an individualist, yet an individualist who believes in collectivism and collective economy. He has been active in movements for women's rights, higher wage rates, and the prevention of child labor...