Word: unorthodox
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...lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform school, told a visitor that he was committed to the institute for watching foreign movies. Later, his principal disclosed that Feng was actually found guilty of seducing twelve-year-old girls. Even premarital and unorthodox sex have come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls," says a Peking gynecologist. "A few weeks ago, I performed one on a 23-year-old worker. It was her third." A pedestrian on Shanghai's bustling Nanking Road may find himself solicited...
...Unorthodox loans lead to a school chancellor's suspension...
Guthrie added his own unorthodox pitch for McGovern votes, saving. "Now, I want you all to get out your little black phone books and call ten people and get them to vote for George. And I don't just mean in Massachusetts I mean all over the country I suppose that might cost you a little, but you don't have to pay your phone bill for a while, right...
...enough writers here to form a dissident branch of the Soviet Writers' Union," Aksyonov ironically observes. A member of the official union for 18 years and the U.S.S.R.'s most popular living novelist, Aksyonov was pressured to leave the country when he edited an anthology of unorthodox Russian writing that the union deemed subversive. The collection, entitled Metropol, which includes an excerpt of a comic play by Aksyonov, was published in the U.S. by W.W.Norton...
...Usually the articles in magazines oversimplify my theories," Gould says. "Often they write about punctuated equilibrium or adaptation as if there were only two sides, as if I'm on one, unorthodox side and everybody else is on the other...