Word: nonconformist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist...
...years Pollock and I worked furiously at our painting, but nothing happened. We bummed around the country and brought our works back to New York galleries, but no one noticed our efforts. The academic painters seemed to have full control, and any deviator or nonconformist was an outsider, thus rejected. After eleven years of this struggle, I gave up to try my hand at ideas I wanted to develop in small towns in California, but Pollock remained in New York and continued his fight against academism...
...most outspoken Methodist leader, Donald Soper, never a man to put aside the burning word, last week hotted up his country's current hassle over artificial insemination (TIME, Jan. 27). The Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the use of extramarital donors as a sin; not necessarily so, said Nonconformist Soper. "It's no good the church wanting to make it a sin or a crime; it is another piece of mechanism science has put in our hands to use wisely. I do not consider it sinful to give certain spinsters . . . artificial insemination so that they do not lose...
Princeton's attitude exemplifies that of the modern agnostic liberal in today's academic community when brought face to face with a real nonconformist who has convictions and the courage to express them...
...London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...