Word: nonconformists
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...aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
...There is a kind of hippie you did not mention, the "working hippie," who works in a 9-to-5 job as a clean-shaven, productive member of society. In his gut, he practices the same philosophy of the more publicized hippies, but he is so unconventional and nonconformist that he doesn't need to wear bangles, beads and a beard to prove that, in spirit, he is a hippie. In time, dropout hippies may realize that they can do as much, or more, on the inside of society as on the outside. Until then, we should be everlastingly...
...result of a 1961 merger uniting two liberal churches that had long shared nonconformist theological and ethical views...
...other words, the technology of mass communications started this nonconformist movement much more than actually ideologies or clash of class groups. It's rather a popular feeling that they do have an opportunity and they are tired of losing opportunities...
...Banker Jean Mauze, Win befriended local children in Pocantico Hills, and ever since has shown a natural ease among men and women of disparate backgrounds. When he says, "I've always been interested in people"-and he says it often-he means just that. "Win was basically the nonconformist," says David. "He was rebellious against the stereotype of what we are." He seems always to have been the Rockefellers' odd boy out. Their mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, once admonished the older sons in writing: "It seems cruel to me that you big boys should make Winthrop the goat...