Word: unorthodox
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...later works. The director, always autobiographical, tries to place you inside the life he has been leading by showing the tense moments backstage in provincial theatres, or the long periods of boredom on trains and country roads. Very simple details carry the message, such as the contrast between the unorthodox drummer in the vaudeville company and the super-smoothy in a Rome nightclub...
Buckley's unorthodox campaign seems to be winniing him votes--as many as 18 per cent of the electorate, according to one poll. But much of Buckley's following is fairly uncertain and may vote instead for one of the candidates who has a chance of winning...
...creates something new out of the destruction caused by death." This message of love is hardly original; it is as old as Christianity-and older. But Tillich asserted it in new ways that were particularly meaningful to his age. He considered himself a Christian theologian; because he was so unorthodox, some preferred to think of him as a philosopher. Beyond either, he was a loving, thinking man who managed, in the 79 years that he lived, to encompass with his mind and heart an extraordinary range of the shocks and searchings of an extraordinary period of history. When Paul Tillich...
Musical drama lies deep in the history of virtually every society. It is partly religious. Says Father R. L. Bruckberger, the unorthodox and literary French priest: "A solemn Mass in Latin-that for me is true opera." Western opera was born during the Renaissance, probably as an attempt to recreate Greek drama with its choruses and chanted poetry. From the first, the creators of opera felt the urge to avoid artifice. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) said that it was silly not to have "realistic" characters in opera-so he created Orfeo and Euridice, with their set, face-front arias...
...architect's clear victory was in designing a unique complex that dominates the city's skyline, presenting a distinct, unforgettable image. "The whole thing is so unorthodox and individual, it grows on you like free sculpture," one architect confessed. "It will never get lost in all the redevelopment that will come to the area, and it won't be dwarfed by the giant buildings that will grow around it." But for many viewers, the closer they approach, the more questions get raised. The solid concrete and marble exteriors of the two office structures seem as forbidding...