Word: nonconformists
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...surprisingly mild. Ninety percent of the 600 students filling out the questionnaire did subscribe to the linen service. Of these only 180, or one-third, called it "poor" or "unacceptable." Another third described it as "fair," just under a third dubbed it "good" or even "excellent," and a nonconformist ten "couldn't care less." When asked to suggest improvements, they responded with widely varying ideas. But they gave little support for a door-to-door linen distribution. The great amount of linen stealing, which allegedly prompted the setting up of depots this year, may account for this feeling...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. The freshest, funniest comedy of the season. As the chief nonconformist in a superb cast of oddballs, Jason Robards Jr. now emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway...
Leskov's life and career were anomalous in his century. He was one of the few Russian writers who did not come from the gentry; his background was lower middle class. There was a strong nonconformist influence on him through an aunt who had married an Englishman and followed the Quaker way of life. He never joined a political party and so, at one time or another, was reviled by both radicals and conservatives. Yet in his job as an assistant steward on the vast estates of the wealthy Perovsky and Naryshkin families, he traveled through his country...
...rose steadily to the post of senior editor, directed the foreign news and books sections, and wrote numerous cover stories on divergent personalities ranging from Marian Anderson to Reinhold Niebuhr to Albert Einstein. A man who loved self-dramatization, Chambers attracted a group of fiercely loyal friends with his nonconformist personality, his brilliant-though often high-flown-writing style, the surprising spread of his scholarship, and, more important, his apocalyptic view of the world, which saw all mankind as threatened by moral decay...
Rhinoceros. lonesco's lone nonconformist (Eli Wallach) stalwartly resists joining the herd, even when his best friends (notably Zero Mostel) desert...