Word: unorthodox
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Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza. But he was perhaps most himself when fabricating his own unorthodox verse forms. He was a born matchmaker, tirelessly contriving a happy marriage of form and content, and the result was a heady range of tonal variations. A Merrill poem might begin like this...
Mather has also opted for unorthodox artwork, but from a much earlier century. One past House Master was a professor of Medieval studies and decorated the Mather dining hall with recreations of Medieval Florentine guild banners, reminding one student of "a fast food court...
...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 it 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...
...reasons Mathis may sound so sure of his unorthodox arrangement is that the SOS Village, and a sister operation in Florida, are part of a mammoth chain based in Innsbruck, Austria. Founded in 1949 for war orphans, SOS- Kinderdorf International, now established in 124 countries, cares for a total of 180,000 children. In each "village," the concept is the same: long- term residency and house mothers who commit to 20 years with the project...
...second half was really up and down, up and down," he said. "They had a really unorthodox press. There was no rhyme or reason to it. But somehow we got stagnant and bogged down against it. We didn't react well...