Word: nonconformist
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...practices the same brand of personal journalism that her irascible and admiring cousin Bert carries to an extreme, although she disagrees with him on almost every political issue. Most important of all, she has a touch of the journalistic genius of her late father, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the nonconformist millionaire, who founded the New York Daily News, made it the biggest and one of the best-edited papers in the U.S., and became the father of tabloid journalism in America...
...explanation of liberal learning such as yours would always be good reading, but this graduate is particularly proud today of his association with America's "most diversified, individualistic and nonconformist university...
...TIME, Jan. 11] It made exciting and thought-provoking reading . . . The success of a man with Rickover's personality and ability is all too rare an occurrence in the world today. The force of conformity is too harsh and too severe . . . The Rickover types (e.g., the scholars, the nonconformist intellectuals, the creative but unsociable "cold fishes," etc.) do not have the prestige they deserve . . . [They] are unsociable, but at the same time are supremely social beings. Their egos and society are amalgamated-all their energies are directed to the improvement of their community...
...Savage World. Thorstein Veblen also cast a jaundiced eye on the bourgeoisie. A nonconformist who might have been one of Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious...
...Puritans thought of themselves as "covenanted saints," but saints only so long as they lived "in a church order." Their government and social life, as well as their religion, centered in the meetinghouse, and their learned nonconformist ministers were the intellectual as well as the spiritual leaders of the colony...