Word: unorthodox
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...power to exalt them (and to check the violence of the Japanese guards) seems to lie less in what he says than in the gentleness with which he says it. Reports spread that he has effected miraculous cures of paralyzed soldiers. To the senior British officer, this seems "queer, unorthodox . . . creepy," but to Padre Choyce it seems evidence of "the hand of God." Profoundly humbled, the chaplain begins to live by Andros' quiet exhortation: "Open the gates of that citadel, your heart, and don't be afraid when men come...
Golden was surprised and pleased by the visit, a strangely unorthodox one in a period of bitter industrial strife. He advised the two to dope out a way of enlisting worker cooperation to keep the business going. So Scanlon sat down with the management and worked out the first edition of his productivity plan. Under it, the workers were encouraged to suggest ways of increasing productivity, and were rewarded by bonuses for any such increase. The men in the plat thus became participating members in the enterprise, with a stake in the company's success and responsibility for its success...
...this, mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...
...Iron Cage. Ever since he came down from Oxford's Brasenose College to become a curate in Liverpool eleven years ago, the Rev. Marcus Morris has been trying to bring religion closer to life in just such unorthodox fashion. At first some parishioners were not entirely pleased to find their curate turning up regularly at pubs and cocktail parties, but Morris kept on trying to break down what he calls "the iron cage between the clergy and the people." In the pubs there was also a certain coolness. "But as soon as I convinced them that I came...
Even Californians, who love nothing better than a noisy, unorthodox, whirling political campaign, had to confess to a feeling of bleary-eyed dizziness. Just as their primary election merry-go-round was speeding up, grey, quiet Senator Sheridan Downey jumped off. From Bethesda Naval Hospital he announced last week that he wouldn't be riding for the Democratic nomination after all. Reason: peptic ulcers and general weariness...