Word: deviationism
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Says Thomson: "Unusual works have more news value than Toscanini. The history of music is the history of composition, not performance. There is great validity in the constant performance of classical music, but the real news is deviation from the routine. For instance, I might be very fond of roast...
So the arrests and trials went on and as spring lengthened into summer, the executions began. On June 10, the first witch was hanged on Salem's Gallows Hill. In July, five went to their deaths on the gallows, in August five more, and on a single day in September...
After a period of doubt, intensified by his disagreement with the Communists over Korea, Darke answered a newsman's question with simple honesty. In a war between Russia and Britain, he admitted, he would fight for his country. Darke was promptly called upon to explain his "deviation." But he...
The doctor sat behind a desk at the apex of the L-shaped room; the ministers and their wives sat at ease before him. At the doctor's right was a blackboard, and on his desk stood a microphone wired to a tape recorder which ran steadily throughout the...
-Confucius Less than three months after" shamelessly promising a vast industrial expansion in 1953, the Chinese Communists were finding that old Confucius was right after all. The Peking People's Daily accused everybody in sight of a "deviation of adventuristic progress," i.e., of rushing into projects without proper planning...