Word: nonconformist
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...goodly a company of such pilgrims as has yet been collected in one volume: there are Novelists Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Journalist Louis Fischer, Poet Stephen Spender, and there is an introduction by British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, who thinks that but for his own "nonconformist cussedness" he might have been tempted by Communism himself. The stories the six contributors tell may be read as strange and dreadful Canterbury Tales of the 20th Century...
...Gill was born into the poverty-pinched family of a nonconformist deacon. As a child he liked to draw locomotives, and later cathedrals, striving always for accuracy. Lettering appealed to him because "you don't draw an 'A' and then stand back and say: there, that gives you a good idea of an 'A' as seen through an autumn mist . . . Letters are things, not pictures of things." Moreover, letters, particularly when carved on tombstones, served a clear purpose, and they paid...
Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...
...Bolshevik in Dinner Jacket. Rival principles, like rival callers, have walked in & out of Spaak's life at top speed. He was born (1899) of a notable and nonconformist Belgian family who felt, in the words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches...
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill said: "I am an ordinary man who refuses to be bamboozled." But Eric Gill, born in 1882 as the second of a poor nonconformist minister's 13 children, was far from ordinary. One of England's top sculptors and wood carvers, he was also a Christian whose religious simplicity led him to beat a hasty and disgusted retreat from the great names of the art world...