Word: unorthodox
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...sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That nut's a genius...
AFTER WATCHING the feud over the American Repertory Theatre's unorthodox production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" almost turn into the First Amendment Superbowl of 1984, those actually making the trip to the Loeb Mainstage will more likely be bored than shocked...
...business built largely on trust, a little wildness can be highly contagious. Consider the case of William G. Patterson, the highflying, unorthodox executive vice president of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank. While negotiating million-dollar deals in restaurants during the early 1980s, he would sometimes regale out-of-town clients with such stunts as drinking beer out of his cowboy boot or stuffing a roast quail into his pocket. In his office at Penn Square, he would sport Mickey Mouse ears or a hollowed-out duck decoy on his head. Patterson's lending ideas were just...
...prosecution remains-why research the Unification Church for five years? Prosecutor Devita contends that the seemingly extraordinary measures clothe a very simple tax case, and stresses that there is no reason for concern that legitimate church activity will be prosecuted because of this case, whether the religions are orthodox, unorthodox, or whatever...
...were inspired by this month's 40th anniversary of Rumania's liberation from fascism. Moreover, with an ailing economy and a mountain of foreign debt, most of it owed to the West, there was no harm in projecting Rumania in the U.S. as a friendly and unorthodox Communist state worthy of special Western treatment...