Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...
...lines are not pointed artfully enough to evoke laughs in the right places. 2) His characters are not sufficiently personalized. No one cares whether the candidate for Governor does get drunk and say the wrong things over the radio, thus confounding the tabloids and winning the election by unorthodox strategy...
...Englishman, an artist, an idealist. Never able to respect the academic or conventional mind, he left Oxford before he had finished. Aged 19, he toured England with the Kelson Truman Opera Company, wrote three operas himself. In a few years he turned to symphony work, presenting highly unorthodox programs which were marked with deep musical scholarship as well as youth's impetuous revolt. Calm, neat, leisurely, absentminded, he lavished ?100,000 ($486,000) on his first season of opera at the Afternoon Theatre, where he conducted the first English performances of Elektra and introduced English enthusiasts to Composers Strauss...
...from an "earth established so that it may not be moved" to the unstable earth described by the Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology at Harvard University in this thought-provoking volume. Professor Daly is one of America's most speculative and unorthodox geologists; most of us among the younger generation of geologists, are prone to be more or less bound by the splendid traditions which we have received from Chamberlin, Barrell, Gilbert and the other "great Masters" who were in their prime at the opening of the present century. But Professor Daly has never been a "conformist;" no mental shackles...
...then a Yale undergraduate, came to fame by winning first the Metropolitan title and then, at Brookline, Mass., the national amateur championship. At Flossmoor, Ill., in 1923, he relinquished his national title to Max Marston of Philadelphia only after 38 holes of amazing competitive golf. Possessed of a slightly unorthodox style, he is more given to "spells" of brilliance or mediocrity than some other golfers, but his courage and resourcefulness are of an extremely high order. His opponents never feel secure against the "impossible" shots that it is his habit to bring off. . . . Siwanoy Club (Mount Vernon, N. Y.) prepared...