Word: nonconformists
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...wonder is that Pegler lasted so long. The ultimate nonconformist, he came to hate almost everything he wrote about, from politics to literature to animals. Occasionally his tirades were hilarious ; more often they were simply ridiculous. No columnist in American history has heaped so much personal abuse on so many people over so long a period. "Liar," "Communist," "traitor," "parasite" were words that Pegler commonly used to describe most of the people he disliked...
...Williams' contention that whenever government infringes on civil rights "it begins with the weak and the friendless, or the scorned and the degraded, or the nonconformist and the unorthodox." Of the major civil liberties cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the past decade, most of the defendants "have been accused of murder, rape, arson, narcotics offenses, bootlegging and membership in the Communist Party...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. A fine fresh comedy on a tired subject, nonconformism. As the arch-nonconformist, Jason Robards Jr. is beset by a captivating set of plodballs and an irresistible sweetie named Sandy Dennis...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. A fine fresh comedy on a tired subject, nonconformism. As the arch-nonconformist, Jason Robards Jr. is beset by a captivating set of plodballs, and an irresistible sweetie named Sandy Dennis...
...AMERICANS. "Are Americans human beings? What I mean is, are they members of the human race in terms of what we usually mean by the words? Every time I see an American, I wonder if he is trying to be a complete nonconformist or trying on the contrary to conform to something unknown...