Democrats express remarkably few reservations about Mr. Obama — despite his tough nomination fight with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the risks associated with his race, his liberal policy stances, even his nontraditional name.
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, a 30-year-old Madison, WI resident, was arrested Thursday on some pretty unremarkable charges (carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and a violation of probation), but he's been making national headlines nonetheless thanks to his nontraditional name.
A child is like a second chance at life, so it's become popular to try to find a nontraditional, weird name in the hope that the kid will grow up to be an Olympic skiier, a baseball player, or Ronnie James Dio.
As a new dad, what do you think of nontraditional baby names, like North West?
Media stardom has become perhaps the great existential answer to the question "Why are we here?" It would seem only natural that one would parlay the extremity of one's physical exoticism, difficult-to-pronounce name and nontraditional camera presence into fame and fortune.
The concept dates back to the days of sabermetrics — early analysis of nontraditional statistics that brought names like Bill James into the lexicon, and its use of "WAR" (wins above replacement) and emphasis on OBP (on-base percentage) rather than traditional measures of a player's value, such as batting average and runs batted in.
The "radical" in its Greek name translates more accurately as "nontraditional".
Columbia's School of General Studies, which offers an undergraduate education for nontraditional students, took notice after spotting his name on a list for Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society for two-year colleges.
"In rent-regulated apartments, a named tenant and a roommate may constitute a nontraditional family, whereby the roommate may stay after the named tenant vacates," Mr. Finder said.
"Being big for the sake of being big is not terribly important," said Mr. Wren, who led the Omnicom division specializing in nontraditional holdings, known as Diversified Agency Services, before being named president of Omnicom in 1995 and chief executive in 1997.
When World TeamTennis began play in 1974, it came with a host of nontraditional, and sometimes downright bizarre, innovations, from names on the backs of jerseys to multicolored courts.
