Word: unorthodox
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...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...
Self - Proclaimed Undergraduate Counsel Outsider William J Pyonteck Jr.'00 is hoping that his Unorthodox campaign platform will earn him support when presidential voting begins today...
Brown, an orthodox Catholic but unorthodox Republican, says he wants to balance the federal budget through large funding cuts in the EPA, the CIA and the Departments of Energy and Commerce, and smaller ones in welfare, Medicaid and Medicare. He also wants the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations and to "farm out prisoners to third-world countries...
...Hume, an unorthodox Republican whose goal is to reform politics, has refused all monetary contributions to his campaign. He also says he would have voted against banning partial-birth abortions and supported Clinton's policy on gays in the military. Founder of Citizens for Fair Elections, Hume helped reform Detroit's election procedures and, with his Public Eye Video company, won the right to videotape Detroit government meetings...
Sure enough, the authors, who included Cynthia Ozick and screenwriter-director Robert Benton, proved fascinated by Genesis and fearlessly willing to connect it with their own life. Gradually they helped Visotzky develop his own satisfying, if unorthodox, understanding of the patriarchs. God intended them not as paragons but as a paradox: badly flawed yet nonetheless blessed. It was in the struggle to "mediate this dissonance," concluded Visotzky, that believers would achieve their own moral understanding. "It is not the narrative of Genesis that makes the work sacred," he later wrote. "Rather, it is in the process of studying Genesis that...