Word: unorthodox
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There is always a danger of quackery in such unorthodox approaches, as orthodox doctors repeatedly warn. But some New Age healers have perfectly standard medical training. Bernie Siegel, for example, is a surgeon who teaches at Yale and has written a new best seller, Love, Medicine & Miracles. After years of treating cancer patients, he believes "all disease is ultimately related to a lack of love, or to love that is only conditional, for the exhaustion of the immune system thus created leads to physical vulnerability." Dolores Krieger, an R.N. and a Ph.D., teaches the art of therapeutic touch to nurses...
...commander in World War II, he is the only civilian political leader in this quartet. He is also the only loser. If we study Hitler, why not Napoleon instead of Wellington? Conversely, the modern analogue to Wellington is not Hitler but Dwight Eisenhower. But Keegan is following a somewhat unorthodox method, not deriving a theory from his examples but choosing his examples to illustrate a thesis...
Same Old Simon. Despite the unorthodox look of the management, this stock continues to gain, especially among investors who remember the Depression...
...Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a moving minimalist meditation by British Composer Michael Nyman based on a case history in Neurologist Oliver Sacks' best seller, and Harry Partch's 1959 Revelation in the Courthouse Park, a quirky blending of Euripides and Elvis Presley, scored for an unorthodox orchestra and set to a musical scale with 43 tones instead of the normal twelve...
...make a living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be painters manque, but talented art directors and designers are more indulged and permitted more expressive leeway in Japan than in most other countries. Much of their work, even for big corporations, is highly unorthodox. At train stations in Tokyo last year, commuters could not avoid a meditation on androgyny, in the form of huge prints of a man's face superimposed on a woman's; the only type was the company's name, almost unreadably small, at the bottom. "The Japanese regard advertising...