Word: unorthodox
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...PLANNING of the Pusey Library has proceeded fairly smoothly, although there have been a few complaints about its unorthodox appearance. The new freshman dorm, however, has been plagued by controversy. The Visual and Environmental Studies Department, the Faculty Council and many people living at Radcliffe have all expressed their disapproval of some aspect of the new dorm...
With such unorthodox symbols and signposts, Vonnegut himself has been surveying America for nearly a quarter of a century. In the course of that time, he has created a closed system all his own. Indeed, it is Vonnegut's strange and captivating system, not his conventionally liberal ideas or his stolidly workmanlike prose, that has made him one of the most popular ornaments of contemporary fiction; for his devices have allowed him to comment with sadness, affection and humor about absurdities that drive lesser men to mere frothing at the mouth and black rage...
...growth of joint libraries, special interdisciplinary programs, research centers, area studies, and joint degree programs have partially undermined this usefulness. The subordination of departments to another center of power may carry some disadvantages. The departments can hardly be defined as bulwarks for academic freedom: their record for embracing the unorthodox and unpopular has been too poor for that. And with two professors sitting on the Harvard Corporation another center for that defense seems to exist...
...Valenzuela is much more mature this year," he said, "so he should do much better than he did a year ago. With White, it all depends on his state of mind on a particular day. If he starts well, he'll do all right. Bennett is erratic and very unorthodox, but on the basis of his performance in the Easterns. I'm sure he will do well...
Long ago Fuller adopted the Thomas Edison system of quick snoozes so that he could manage 22-hour working days. Yet it is typical of Fuller's unorthodox way of looking at the world that he first got the idea of catnaps from watching a dog. In his familiar role as a minister of progress from the 21 st century and "publicist for the universe," Fuller is not only a generalist in the best American twinker-tinker tradition, he is the human equivalent of Telstar-intercepting the music of the spheres and vectoring it down to earth with...