Word: unorthodox
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...inevitable, however, that the unorthodox technique of going through the black community collecting fingerprints would eventually provoke a controversy. No matter how "voluntary" the program, the notion of methodically asking people who were not individually suspect to submit to an intrusive procedure simply because they were black raised some worrisome racial and civil-liberties issues. Said James Lieber, executive director of the Pittsburgh branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Blacks must relinquish their privacy or become suspect." N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks said it looked like "police power run amuck." William Penn, director of N.A.A.C.P.'s local branches, feared...
Oddly, an even more unorthodox police procedure went unreported: Kelly's men had asked many of those they interviewed to volunteer blood samples to be checked against bits of the rapist's blood in police possession. "We got 45 samples," Kelly noted last week...
...that we have an open society, a nice, friendly, clean country," says Cees van Lede, president of the Federation of Netherlands Industry. Nonetheless, the discussion has taken on a special urgency in the Netherlands, which has long enjoyed a reputation for social experiment and enlightened attitudes, as well as unorthodox solutions. As a result, the Dutch stir up controversy when they argue, drawing worldwide attention to their social ills...
...suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes 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 like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic...
According to this view, junior NSC officers, prominently including a specialist in counterterrorism named Oliver North, were given wide authority to call on all branches of the military and intelligence communities for assistance, with no questions asked. The officers were told to use their ! imagination and to try unorthodox methods...