Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrestlers breezed through the first three divisions with Paul Widerman, Andy McNerney and Fritz Campbell chalking up expected wins over the Wesleyan lightweights. Only McNerney, whose unorthodox style forces him to spend time with his back too close to the mat for comfort, had a moment of trouble before flattening the Cardinals' 126-pounder, Steve White, after...
...forklifts and refrigerated vans. His customers include 85% of the FORTUNE 500 and thousands of other firms from Mexico's Yucatán to Canada's Yukon and into Europe. More than that, from his glass-walled office overlooking aptly named Eden Prairie, Minn., Grossman propagates some unorthodox notions about how to build a major enterprise and motivate managers and enhance productivity...
DIED. Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-born psychoanalyst and iconoclastic author, whose unorthodox theories of cosmic evolution, published in 1950 as Worlds in Collision, outraged scientists; in Princeton, N.J. Combining a vast knowledge of biblical and mythological lore with his study of Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses, Velikovsky developed a controversial theory of colliding planets. He contended-in total violation of the laws of celestial mechanics-that a fragment from the planet Jupiter brushed by earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods...
...what Dyson has written reads at times more like a confession. In Disturbing the Universe, science is often secondary to Dyson's enunciation of his personal failures and vulnerabilities. This is the most unexpected and endearing aspect of this unorthodox book. But while Dyson is eloquent, he is not a professional writer when he picks up a pen and bravely sets down what means most to him, he is not always convincing...
...expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking," to which Edison added one of his own: "The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasures in life." A most unorthodox and in many ways unattractive thinker, Edison nonetheless multiplied the pleasures of life for everyone who listens to a record, watches a movie or flips a light switch...