Word: nonconformist
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...behind the Puritan settlers, Powell found. Men like Peter Noyes, a prosperous yeoman and the fourth largest landholder when he left the manor of Weyhill in southern England, brought with them centuries-old customs of open-field, cooperative farming and local government. Men like Edmund Brown, Cambridge graduate and Nonconformist minister, sprang from bustling, self-governing English boroughs and brought with them city ways and institutions. A strong minority of early Sudbury settlers like John Parmenter and Thomas Cakebread the miller were used to independently run, competitive, closed-field farming as then practiced in the east of England...
...Prince Edward County resumed their education last week in four public schools leased by the Prince Edward Free School Association. And right there among them, his white face conspicuous in a sea of black ones, was a 6-ft., 180-lb. boy of 17 named Richard Moss-the single nonconformist who deliberately chose to go to school with 1,500 Negroes...
Sino-Marxist Amalgam. With no formal university education, Ching-kuo commands little loyalty among Nationalist China's intellectuals, and his nonconformist methods irritate the top politicians of the Kuomintang. He is backed by his dashing half brother, Major General Chiang Wei-kuo, 47. As minister without portfolio in the Cabinet and special adviser to the President, Ching-kuo works closely with his father. Another source of strength is Ching-kuo's 100,000-man Youth Corps, and his veto power over promotions in the army gives him enormous influence with junior officers...
Questions & Answers. When he isn't accused of being an extremist, Goldwater is usually denounced by his opponents for dealing in generalities. Last week, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report, he gave some specific answers, several of which could be called nonconformist...
...first: at Minneapolis in 1954. * The once vital Nonconformist churches do no better: during the past 50 years, membership in English Congregationalist churches has declined 50%, and in the Baptist churches 25%. Thanks to Irish immigration, Roman Catholics have increased rapidly since World War II, now number 5,000,000. But Sunday attendance at Mass is depressingly low. * When Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. tried to take over Courtaulds, Ltd. in 1961, records showed the church to be second largest shareholder in both corporations. The church currently owns 2,600,000 shares of the British Motor Corp...