Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features equally unorthodox which should make it attractive to the most blase patron of the cinema...
Professor Barss proposed a rearrangement of the musicians. In effecting this, each of the 45 players was moved to a position unorthodox in symphonic seating plans. If he had not been adaptable, Conductor Fiedler might then have found himself pointing to the trombones when he wished to stir up the bassoons. But he soon learned where his men were. Best of all, the scheme worked...
...California. Golfer Smith's two feet and the head of his club, when it touches the ground, nearly always form that invisible equilateral triangle so exuberantly eulogized in golf textbooks. During the recent European venture of U. S. professional golfers, he has been the direct antithesis of erratic unorthodox Leo Harley Diegel. On the careless hillocks and ridges of Muirfield and Moortown where he had his first taste of European golf, Golfer Smith generally had to forego his orthodox stance. In St. Cloud, however, the land's conformity did not interfere with his form. Furthermore, there was no wind...
...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...
...ESSAYS ON ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY-C. G. Jung-Translated by H. G. Baynes-Dodd Mead ($4). The first consecutive statement, in English, of psychoanalysis as revised by Jung, the unorthodox Freudian with the mystical tendency. His explanation reveals a great vitality of thinking that is cluttered by the very mass of his thoughts-difficult reading, but well worth the trouble...