Word: nonconformist
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Zigzag Intellectual. Following in Martin's wake may take some doing. A brilliant but zigzag intellectual with the tonsure and the look of a nonconformist cleric (his father was just that), Martin came to the Statesman determined to kindle a blaze: "I thought I was the sort of editor who would destroy the paper within six months but would make my message clear." He succeeded in doing neither...
...fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...
...from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
...parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...
...violent theater of Tennessee Williams and his imitators is not, as it is often hailed, daring and nonconformist. It is, on the contrary, the expression of a new philistinism. So says Alfred Kazin, latest of many critics to speak out against what is dehumanized and degenerate in the Broadway theater...