Word: unorthodox
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Sitting throughout and speaking entirely without any prepared text or notes, the rumpled classicist drew from the range of ancient Greek literature, as he built up his unorthodox argument that Socrates and Plato were totalitarian, absolutist, and elitists to boot. Along the way, he made brief detours, for instance to call Solon the "Franklin D. Roosevelt of Athens" or to make a plug for studying the great classes ("All our feelings as human beings are there...
Because of such unorthodox political views and accusations against the government and its officials, the Society asserts that Washington conducted a national and "vicious smear campaign' against the John Birch Society in the 1960s...
...reau Ring is perhaps even more effective on TV than in the opera house. What is sacrificed in scenic grandeur, such as the looming pile that is Valhalla or Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods...
...calluses on her fingers and at times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that," and became her most unorthodox and famous student. His name: Harpo Marx...
...inflation has pushed more and more middle-class Americans into higher tax brackets, there has been a growing curiosity about these complex securities. Bond Salesman James Lebenthal has spent ten years trying to raise the public consciousness about municipal bonds, and has gone about the task in an unorthodox way. Instead of relying on dull technical advertisements in financial publications, Lebenthal appears in his own television commercials, declaring that "bonds are my babies." Such tactics have helped transform his small New York City firm, Lebenthal & Co., into one of the U.S.'s largest municipal bond dealers that sell only...