Word: unorthodox
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...communities "interested me in the effect of politics on the lives and resources of Black people. I began to see politics as an area where not enough Blacks were involved." Consequently, Nuri says his academic experiences made him "determined to make Blacks see more about politics in new and unorthodox ways...
...UNIVERSITY'S decision to erect seven expensive kiosks in the Yard and to prohibit posters on walls is ostensibly a measure to keep the Yard beautiful, but in reality serves to restrict communication among students. It is especially crippling to new and unorthodox groups that must rely heavily on posters to publicize their positions and activities...
...Anderson peppered his campaign with a buckshot array of intelligent, unorthodox attacks on specific problems, he nevertheless failed to project the vision that would give wings to a political movement capable of upsetting the two-party system. He might well complain that his 317-page platform was barely read, much less reported. Still the longtime political conservative, who had moderated his views enough to be endorsed by New York's Liberal Party and the New Republic, gambled mainly on riding a wave of anti-Carter and anti-Reagan sentiment. That, clearly, was not enough...
William M. Agee, 42, of Bendix Corp., is an unorthodox manager. After becoming chairman of the automotive and aerospace manufacturer in 1977, he set up a telephone line so that employees could call him directly about complaints. He then abolished the main conference table in the company's headquarters, arguing that this would enhance conversations among the firm's officials. Directors at board meetings now sit around the room in comfortable office chairs. He decreed that the best parking space in the company lot be reserved not for himself but for the person who arrived first at work...
...there have been exceptions, like the psychiatrist played by Leo G. Carroll in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, who shot his colleague, and the one currently played by Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill, who sports a blond wig and goes after patients with razors. But such methods are unorthodox. The image most people carry of psychiatrists is that of Lee J. Cobb in The Three Faces of Eve -gentle, calm, kind, the sort of person you would entrust with your mother. You remember your mother...