Word: unorthodox
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...doubt this common attitude is significant, but more important is the fact that all four men were rather unorthodox Communists. None of them felt entirely comfortable with the corpus of Marx's thought, much less with the Stalinist Communist Party of the USA. Eastman and Burnham were both Troskyists who regarded Stalin as a Slavophilic counter-revolutionary, and neither accepted the Marxist account of the inevitable progress of history. Herberg was a member of the small Lovestoneite faction of the CPUSA, a bitter anti-Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow...
Revolving Door. ABC's coming of age as a contender is shaking up the industry. Claiming the largest audience of young adults of any network, ABC plans to concentrate on young performers rather than established stars and run shows on flexible, unorthodox schedules. -Says Pierce, "We plan to introduce new shows all year round, and we want to develop new dramatic forms." With the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, he plans more serials from novels, and is also experimenting with short series like the recent four-program Lola Falana Show that was aired each week in a different...
...special prosecutor, Maurice Nadjari, had the authority to investigate the New York Democratic Party chairman Patrick Cunningham; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A tireless, methodical, thorough worker, Democrat Murtagh presided over Republican Nadjari's corruption cases for three years and repeatedly clashed with the prosecutor, whose slashing, unorthodox tactics caused Murtagh to throw out a number of pre-jury indictments...
...fight apparently inspired the freshman offense which used the unorthodox Russian style of criss-crossing men at center ice, as Randy Millan scored the first goal to give Harvard a 1-0 lead...
...special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket, the firing could prove a costly blunder. At best...