Word: unorthodox
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...pushing each student to try the uncomfortable, unorthodox use of a technique that Miss Vosgerchian's vehemence has brilliance. She sits by a student's shoulder at the piano, questioning, wheedling, soothing, demanding that he try an exercise one more way. "You don't think I'm going to let you be comfortable, do you?" she said to a student. "All you can do is to be up against something and use it for what it offers...
...been the other way around. Author of The Outward Room and coauthor of the screenplay for The Snake Pit, he has served long enough as a psychiatric aide to become vocationally confused about his main role as a journeyman novelist. Brand's raw material- case histories detailing the unorthodox treatment of psychotics in the late 1940s- obsesses him at the expense of his craft. Anything approaching the tragic finally escapes him, but in this best-selling novel, by sheer plodding persistence, Brand compels the reader to bear witness with him to the involuted agonies of shipwrecked minds...
...long illness; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Bedas founded a money-changing business on a $4,000 stake in 1948, built it into a $350 million empire centered around Intra. But in 1966, as depositors' money suddenly flowed out of Beirut, Intra collapsed; Lebanese authorities held him responsible for "unorthodox banking practices," but Bedas maintained that "enemies" had conspired to break...
...Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller to join him on a unity ticket. Humphrey aides denied it, insisted that the Vice President always wanted Maine's Senator Ed Muskie on his ticket...
...music's choral masters is exceeded only by his inexplicable anonymity. He absorbed the colossal Baroque style of Giovanni Gabrieli as well as the audacious innovations of Monteverdi, both Schutz's contemporaries and teachers, to forge a colorfully formal, intensely spiritual, quietly progressive style. In its unorthodox form, the Exequien looks forward to the cantatas of Bach and the oratorios of Handel. The work is characterized by an evangelical passion which perhaps only Bach and Verdi, in his singularly tumultuous idiom, were able to equal; and also by a supreme melodic beauty which is the result of consummate vocal understanding...