Word: unorthodox
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Emerson would have been thrilled to find a mind so conscious and passionate of its purpose. He would have hated the Core because it compromises genius while compensating mediocrity. Emerson had even made the very unorthodox argument that vocational training could count as a liberal arts education, simply because “education should be as broad...
...only wants respect from her peers, and her alcoholic husband Norman—played with the perfect mixture of exhaustion and sarcasm by Alec Baldwin. When Norman walks out on the family, Deirdre begins seeing Dr. Finch (Brian Cox, “The Bourne Identity”), an unorthodox therapist who medicates her with pills, pills, and more pills. Desensitized to the world, Deirdre allows Finch and his family to adopt Joseph, which in the name of preserving her sanity. Augusten embarks upon life with the Finches, perhaps the most neurotic, Freudian-inspired family in the history of literature...
When the latest general education report was released last week, the world’s Harvard-watchers focused intently upon the report’s most unorthodox recommendation—a “reason and faith” requirement. It even made headlines in The Times of India...
...clearer last month when George Bush suddenly announced that 14 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists had been shipped from mysterious overseas locations to the U.S. detention center at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. It was the first White House confirmation of a secret CIA-operated network of overseas prisons, places where unorthodox methods of interrogation were not unknown. "Were it not for this program," Bush said, referring to the secret prisons and the things done there, "al-Qaeda and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland...
...project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union...