Word: unorthodox
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Perhaps the most intriguing explanation is that offered by Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon, 56, dean of Hebrew University's Faculty of Humanities. Israel, Talmon argues, was born in desperate times that called for unorthodox methods if it was to survive. But, he says, "because we missed a beat in the growing-up process," the country has not made an orderly transition from frontier state to mature nation. "There are still traces of unorthodoxy," Talmon maintains, "and people have problems defining the boundary between what is permissible and what is not. In a society where you have unconventional feats such...
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 is part of this new genre. Eight leftovers from the '60s, each holding fast to a different--but always unorthodox--ideology, come into contact through an organic farm on the outskirts of Geneva, where for a little while they seem to have found a viable alternative to the bourgeois life they disdain. Each character is as individual as the ideology he or she has adopted, ranging from Max, a former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people...
...century, and the bourgeois world is still in control. Marie, whose innocent, wide-eyed smile has led one to believe she will never be brought under the rule of the establishment, is imprisoned for petty theft, and loses her child-like carelessness. Marco loses his job for teaching his unorthodox theories. And finally the pressures of the outside world break apart even the bonds between members of the group: Marguerite, the farmer, refuses to finance Mathieu's teaching efforts, and he is forced to return to a factory job he hates...
Without a Trace. A number of dissidents have reportedly been confined to lunatic asylums for expressing unorthodox opinions. Hundreds have been arrested or put under constant police surveillance. Among the most recent targets is Physicist Robert Havemann, an open critic of East Germany's Communist regime. Seized late last month at his home outside East Berlin, he is being held under stringent house arrest. Another victim is a leading East German writer, Jürgen Fuchs, who disappeared without a trace after the police kidnaped him on a busy street in broad daylight...
...short hops, instead of the far more secure (and far more expensive) Army helicopters that are at his disposal. The owner of the charter service, Tom Peterson, is a kind of south Georgia bush pilot who has been flying Carter around for years. But his relaxed attitude and unorthodox procedures (he sometimes flies his twin-engine Cessna 310 without a copilot) have caused agents assigned to Carter to consume more antacid than usual. A recent Carter flight from Senator Herman Talmadge's Georgia plantation back to Plains was a case in point. Because Plains was socked in with...