Word: unorthodox
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Penetrating the unorthodox confluence of sounds was daunting. Instruments sounded as if they were playing on different levels separate from accompanying players. Lund was sure to keep the beat but the rhythm often seemed to disagree with Trosper and Rumsey. Similarly, bass and guitar often battled for who could be more discernibly out of step with the other. Despite the randomness, Unwound never failed in molding distinct, assimilable songs from the musical mess...
Unsatisfied with what I've learned at the Bow, I decide to take a survey of underage undergrads, and I make the statistically unorthodox (if terribly convenient) decision to focus my attention on people I know. The dominant sentiment that emerges through a series of conversations and e-mails is that Krueger's death had a palpable impact on alcohol access. But there's no consensus about whether things have since relaxed. One member of the class of 2000 tells me that just after the MIT incident, "friends' I.D.'s which always worked were suddenly being looked at a little...
That's why the alliance between Northwest and Continental, announced last week, will probably improve the ride for the two companies more than for their passengers. In the unorthodox agreement, Northwest will buy 14% of Continental's common shares--but 51% of the company's voting shares--effectively creating a domestic and international network to compete with megacarriers like United and American. The Continental shares are being sold by Air Partners, controlled by investor David Bonderman. Continental was operating on a wing and prayer five years ago when Air Partners and Air Canada (which since sold its shares) each invested...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he 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, paradoxic 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"--you may be able to ferret...
Much of Bott's own unorthodox youth was spent avoiding educational systems that emphasized rote learning. Born in Budapest on September 24, 1923, to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, he lived the first 16 years of his life in the Hungarian part of Slovakia. His parents divorced soon after he was born, but Bott nonetheless led a childhood of affluence, since his new stepfather was a high-ranking manager in a sugar factory...