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Back by popular demand (or, at least, lack of popular complaint) are the turkey hands kindergartners are drawing this week, as rendered by the rich, famous and the Secretary of Agriculture. Question: Is Jerry Springer being his nonconformist provocative self, or did he just not get the concept...
This new countercultural trend doesn't have any media-approved philosophical leaders. And while it seems to be mostly inchoate, there's a segment of it that's far more sophisticated and authentically nonconformist than Woodstock Nation ever...
These days he looks more like Mick Fleetwood than Al Pacino, but FRANK SERPICO hasn't changed much. Instead of being a nonconformist cop obsessed by police corruption, he's a nonvoting, vegetarian artist obsessed by police corruption. After years of reclusiveness, he's emerging to take on his favorite subject again. The 1973 book he wrote with Peter Maas, Serpico, has been rereleased, and last week before a New York city council committee he urged the establishment of an independent agency to monitor police. "I'm still waiting for the day," he said, "when the honest cop is feared...
With our school days and our assimilation nearing completion, we've changed our minds about Thoreau more than once, and it's even questionable as to whether a nonconformist is wearing sheep's clothing. Rather than dwelling on that grown-up paradox, think of childhood, when the behavioral variations weren't quite so polar. That such a diversity of functioning in childhood exists may help to explain childhood cruelty--a cruelty that attempts to set standardized conventions, leaving no room for dissent...
DIED. MIGUEL TORGA, 87, Portugal's most admired contemporary writer; in Coimbra. A practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against...