Word: nonconformists
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...company as stubborn, as in different to popular tastes, as arbitrary and as nonconformist as France's automaking Citroen could survive in the 20th century is perhaps the single most amazing aspect of the extraordinary firm. In a style-conscious country, Citroen produces some of the ugliest duck lings in the auto world -and sometimes leaves them unchanged for 20 years or more. It practically never advertises in France, maintains supersecrecy about itself, and arrogantly sniffs at its com petitors' concern for style and their methods of hurried obsolescence. Yet the appetite for Citroen cars...
...Tiger and The Typists, by Murray Schisgal. The eupeptic pleasure with which Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson cavort through these two clever one-acters is highly contagious. The Tiger is the better play, as it hoists two enginers of nonconformist cliches on their own pretentious petard...
...Tiger and The Typists, by Murray Schisgal. The eupeptic pleasure with which Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson cavort through these two clever one-acters is highly contagious. The Tiger is the better play, as it hoists two engineers of nonconformist clichés on their own pretentious petard...
...would be hard to keep from trying to make it into an Episcopal church," he said, and speculated that a minister from a nonconformist tradition might have an easier task. He also felt that someone "with greater experience and perhaps some status in the academic world would be better suited...
...word for Ben, it turns out, is embittered nonconformist. While he forces Gloria to strip to her red-and-blue-flowered slip, and collects kisses on demand, he begins talking the poor girl to death on the subject of the death of the individual. His mission, he proclaims, is to be a brutal predator in this world of sheep. Then Playwright Schisgal tips his plot upside down like an hourglass. Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns...