Word: nonconformist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report gives a provisional figure (1,100 per 100,000 adults) for the proportional number of alcoholics in England and Wales, which is barely a quarter of the American figure. Enough of Sir John Falstaff may have lingered in our midst to mitigate the severity of the Nonconformist conscience and its characteristic personality conflicts...
Shadows Move Among Them, by Edgar Mittelh¨olzer. Uninhibited high jinks about a highly nonconformist pastor in British Guiana, somewhat befogged by the suggestion that it all adds up to ethical Utopia (TIME, Sept...
...Robin Hood band. Costumed in green and armed with bows, they would swoop down on some rich squire (such as a boy carrying groceries home), rob him and eat his riches in the forest. In Port Clyde, Maine, where the family spent the summers, Andy found another native nonconformist. Together they learned to handle a dory in heavy surf and to loot lobstermen's pots at night...
Students and faculty spokesmen questioned by the Times' survey here said "that organizations still were willing to speak out in a nonconformist vein, but individuals tended to be more reticent...
Subversive Toleration. Dr. Stokes credits the first experiment in religious freedom to India's Buddhist King Asoka in the 3rd Century B.C. But liberal King Asoka started no popular trend. Even Plato, himself a nonconformist, recommended five years in jail for dissenters from the state religion. The persecuted Christians of the first centuries had no opportunity for anything but separation from the state. But with the coming of the Middle Ages the church adopted what Author Stokes calls the "Ecclesiastical Domination plan," which reached its height with Emperor Henry IV's famed barefoot repentance before Pope Gregory...