Word: unorthodox
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Birtwell made the most of an unorthodox sidearm delivery. He went 2-3 with a 3.31 ERA in conference play and 4-5 with a 2.72 ERA overall. He was selected to his second First Team...
...suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders?...
...trying to improve the quality of Harvard’s artistic education, Phelan implemented an unorthodox structure for the department. She increased the number of professional artists who served as visiting scholars, encouraged student projects and sought to bring to VES the atmosphere of a world-class art school. Her efforts to recruit faculty, fundraise for lectures and exhibitions, and obtain scarce studio space for students and visiting artists alike have led to the wide recognition of Harvard’s VES department as offering one of the most innovative undergraduate studio art program of liberal arts schools...
...committee again. He interviewed twice with them, just before and after Christmas. He told the committee that House life was crucial to Harvard, and that the University needed to "soften the edges" of its research university, opening up opportunities for undergraduates and making professors more accessible. On a more unorthodox level, the U-Michigan president told committee members that Harvard needed to engage with contemporary culture, citing the Carpenter Center and the American Repertory Theater as examples of successful cultural projects. Finally, Bollinger said it was important to bring Harvard together as a whole university, not just a collection...
...most striking development in Ablow's recent work is in its unorthodox, ethereal color. While his previous works were mostly painted in shades of chalky beige and rose with a careful accumulation of paint layers, (a derivative of the direct color technique he learned from Oskar Kokoschka), these paintings glow with blues worthy of Picasso’s Blue Period and warm coppers worthy of Georgia O’Keefe’s canyons. In works like “The Mantle” and “Tuscan Shadows” Ablow’s objects are suffused with...