Word: unorthodox
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...aside from seeming impractical, Harvard's stratospheric tenure standards raise philosophical questions. Holding up eminence as the most important criterion in scholarship runs the risk of discouraging unorthodox innovation. Eminent professors, after all, in many cases gained their reputations by breaking away from the eminent scholars of their youth. The list of current luminaries whom Harvard once rejected for tenure includes Nobel-laureate Paul Samuelson, now an MIT economist and the popular astronomer Carl Sagan, currently at Cornell...
...spring seemed in the offing too. The landlord of one shop wanted to raise Basile's rent from $300 a month to about $350. Basile is a businessman; Landlord Richard Gerrity is a businessman; businessmen compromise. Says Gerrity: "Creativity is important." Thus he gave his negotiator a single, unorthodox instruction: "Get the most number of sandwiches that you possibly...
...Underground's songwriter, graphically described the joys and horrors of narcotics, life on the streets, and, ten years before the punks, the general decay of society. The music was fresh--an amalgam of raw, sometimes un-melodic guitar solos and John Cale's imaginative violin in tunes so unorthodox they assaulted listeners. Countless punk and new wave bands of the 70s drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground which--after a four-year existence and a few classic tracks like "Sweet Jane" and "Waiting for the Man"--called it quits...
Some Classics' games, however, are more fun than others. One encounter two years ago saw the squad do the obligatory pre-game lay up drill in a rather unorthodox manner: the group dribbled, shot and dunked without the ball for ten minutes. Another such episode had one Classic pull down his teammates shorts in front of hundreds of flabbergasted spectators...
...long as nominations are being offered, Forty-Niner linebacker Jack Reynolds deserves an award for his unorthodox style of celebrating. According to the Globe's page-one story on Monday, the NFL veteran gathered the San Francisco defense around him after staging a gutsy goal-line stand in the third quarter. Reynolds then proceeded to unhitch his pants and empty his bladder in the endzone. If nothing else, it's a new wrinkle in the poise-under-pressure theme...