Word: nonconformist
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...Lambeth Conference had made the proposal in 1920: that the Church of England and Britain's Nonconformist churches enter into "full communion" as the first step toward a church united. For more than a quarter century thereafter the project gathered dust in ecclesiastical archives. But this week, in a sermon at the University of Cambridge, the Most Rev. and Right Honorable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, forcibly reminded British Christians that the idea was not dead. Excerpts...
...conference chamber, hobbled some two dozen venerable French "Immortals"-scholars with "glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Days with Punch, Endicott Peabody was born in Salem, Mass, in 1857. His family tree was one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful...
Willa Gather, once nonconformist, now classical frontier novelist (Death Comes for the Archbishop, etc.), onetime managing editor for McClure...
...Most nonconformist of Broadway critics is the World-Telegram's wiry Burton Rascoe. He throws vitriol while his colleagues are pouring honey, ecstatically waves his arms while his colleagues are turning down their thumbs...