Word: iconoclasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mims. Dr. Edward Mims of Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) defended the South's reluctance to embrace "modernism." Said he: "Many people have passed from sentimentalism to sophistication, from rose pink literature to dirty drab, from Pollyanna optimism to the most depressing pessimism, from uplift to iconoclasm, from mediocrity to abnormal eccentricity, from service to rampant individualism and selfishness, from suppressed emotions and inhibitions to unbridled passion and undisciplined thinking, from success as an idol to failure as the chief glory...
WRITTEN in a biographical age notable chiefly for its iconoclasm, "Kit Carson" is just the sort of book one would expect from a former Rhodes Scholar, a native of the West, and a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma. Stanley Vestal takes all that is laudable in the modern method of biography--its colloquial style, eye for the dramatic, disrespect for mythology and Thompsonesque patriotism without falling into the pitfalls typical of tabloid research and the worship of sex appeal...
...Woodward, also a novelist,* spent six years producing his biography of Washington. His pen has not the iconoclasm of Rupert Hughes, but it is equally scholarly. Mr. Hughes uses 494 pages to bring his hero to the age of 30; Mr. Woodward in 460 makes a brilliant sketch of Washington, flanked by the colonies in peace and in revolt, and many another bigwig of the Revolutionary...
...others has many writers of verse, many creative minds in literature. Unfortunately, too few of these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile in conversation and vulgar...
...Woodword and his ills have done enough, and continue to do enough in the matter of "debunking" American history to allay any suspicious that further iconoclasm is at all necessary...