Word: unorthodox
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...featherbedding code quietly drawn up over the past three years by the building-trades union and spokesmen for the National Constructors Association, whose members account for 90% of the U.S.'s heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City, NJ. two months ago by urging a voluntary one-year wage freeze to hold prices down (TIME, Dec. 16). Gray's argument for wage restraint also applies to the anti-featherbedding code: high construction...
...come out foursquare and hearty for vegetarianism. With predictable indignation, labor leaders at last week's A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City pounced on President Richard James Gray of the 19-union Building and Construction Trades Department for making a proposal that he himself conceded was "most unorthodox." The proposal: a one-year voluntary wage freeze to keep prices from rising to the point where demand declines and sagging demand causes unemployment...
With his social background, however, Roosevelt gained acceptance, at least in the clubbie set. He climbed the social terraces at Harvard--the Dickey, the Hasty Pudding, and that loftiest of social honors, the Porcellian. But he must have been a somewhat unorthodox club member. One day he took Alice Lee to lunch at the "Porc," never before polluted by the presence of a woman. "The luncheon with Alice," Pringle notes, "caused manly indignation in the breasts of fellow members, and the true Porcellian man will deny even now that it ever could have happened...
Last week, with the critics admitted once again, Richter was obviously out to rehabilitate himself. His 2½-hour program included two secular Bach cantatas (Nos. 214 and 207A), the Violin Concerto in E Major and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. The Brandenburg was the most unorthodox. In keeping with Bach's principle that any number can play, Richter had the work performed by only eight players-two violas, a cello, two violas da gamba, two string basses and a harpsichord. It emerged as a chamber work with crystal transparency, uncovering contrapuntal voices heard as they were seldom heard...
...Dart of Longing Love. The author of The Cloud of Unknowing was a true man of the Middle Ages; with a healthy horror of heresy he repeatedly affirms his allegiance to the teachings and observances of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet his discipline is a highly unorthodox struggle to pierce beyond teaching and observance to the incandescent reality of God himself. "Indeed," he writes, "if it will be considered courteous and proper to say so, it is of very little value or of no value at all in this work to think about the kindness or the great worth...