Word: unorthodox
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...idea of God, said the U.S. Supreme Court last week, is undergoing an "ever-broadening understanding" in the modern religious community. In deciding unanimously that unorthodox believers qualify as conscientious objectors under the Selective Service Act, the court dealt at length with the nature of a Supreme Being, and produced a ruling studded with references to the Vatican Council, Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, and Anglican Bishop John Robinson's Honest...
...performed opera on the life of Grunewald. Intonation is a major problem in Hindemith. Chords follow one another in the most improbable succession; for the results to be intelligible, nearly every chord must be tuned up separately, and the musicians must have rehearsed it enough to remember what those unorthodox progressions sound like. It takes a lot of involvement and intelligence to play Hindemith--it's impossible to bomb through...
...also accused George Moore of "sabotaging" the fair, of lacking "understanding" of its problems and of having advocated the very policies he criticized. Obviously, Moses and the bankers who differed with him saw the fair through different lenses-but then the World's Fair Corp. is an unorthodox corporation. Formed in 1959 by five New Yorkers as a nonprofit corporation, it runs the first fair in history that aims to earn a surplus on its investment; most of the others have lost money...
...some people the Class Marshalship represented a similary honorific achievement, for which they thought I had qualified on the basis of my activities at Harvard. I have not been a sloucher, appearing for the first time on the public scene to run for this unorthodox post: I have on the contrary become fairly well-known for my work on the Crimson. Had I been a boy with the same qualifications, the ordinariness of my case would be obvious, and I most certainly would have gone down in unpublished defeat as just another ambitious politico-journalist. And strangely enough, there were...
...CONTINUO (2 LPs; Cambridge). Although the Baroque revival has dredged up a good deal of dross, it has also led to the discovery of some golden nuggets. Sonya Monosoff plays these with rich tone and temperament and gets colors seldom heard today, for Biber liked to use scordatura, an unorthodox tuning of the strings...