Word: icon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salient qualities of his mind were enthusiasm and an insatiable, embarrassing curiosity. Soon he came to worship at a popular shrine of which the idol was a fat, brilliant, untidy person, a rude and witty talker, a man of letters and a genius?Samuel Johnson. For many, this grotesque icon had lost his potency by the time he died. Not so for James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly the best biography in the world...
...multitudinous devotees would have known that their divinity was dead if explanations had not been made in her obituaries. Few indeed of the millions and millions of worshipers who carried her effigy with them-at toil and at play, in sickness and in health-as their most valued icon, suspected that she had lived a mortal existence...
...Mencken goes little further. Like all capable iconoclasts he has no better icon in his pocket to replace the smashed idol. Bertrand Russell has. And though his particular idols are those of the philosophical mind and, therefore a triple shadowed by the clouds of unattainable idealism, they are worthy gods and not small ones...
...Room of the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge. All three meetings will be open to members of the University. the complete programs for the meetings follow: Tomorrow Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at 8 P. M. Address of Welcome, Director Fairbanks, Museum of Fine Arts A Large Painted Canvas Icon from the Monastery of St. Sabras Assistant Director Hawes, Museum of Fine Arts Examples of Ancient Jewelry in Boston and Providence, S. B. Luce '09 Some Unpublished Sience Paintings, G. H. Edgell '09 The Original of the Spanish Retable, W. W. S. Cook, Princeton University Another Sidamara Sarcophagus, John Shapley...