Word: iconoclasms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have written on the Death of God controversy is a disappointing pastiche of quips and quotes, obscuring the more profound issues in the faith crisis. Instead of name-dropping on the God droppers, would that you had shown your readers some of the religiously conservative elements in the new iconoclasm: recovery of the Second Commandment (against idolatrous images), recovery of ancient Jewish and Christian doctrine of the transcendence and hiddenness of God (against easy equation of God with culture or finite being), recovery of the insights of saints and mystics on the necessary Dark Nights of the Soul (against untested...
...belonged to the dreamlike round of Vienna, capital of the inbred Habsburgs and the waltz. In the changing '20s, Paris provided a moveable feast for Hemingway, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Joyce, while in the chaos after the Great Crash, Berlin briefly erupted with the savage iconoclasm of Brecht and the Bauhaus. During the shell-shocked 1940s, thrusting New York led the way, and in the uneasy 1950s it was the easy Rome of la dolce vita. Today, it is London, a city steeped in tradition, seized by change, liberated by affluence, graced by daffodils and anemones, so green with parks...
...troublesome score and libretto of Trouble in Tahiti isn't worth the trouble. Leonard Bernstein's pretentiously modern one-act opera is an attack on hollow suburbia. Even in 1952, when it was written, that was a boringly standard iconoclasm. The music is generally wearisome, the libretto, also written by Bernstein, generally clumsy...
...their iconoclasm, however, the city magazines maintain a stubborn pride in their home towns. Greater Philadelphia, for example, balances its digs at the business community with some highly flattering profiles of business and community leaders. The magazines couldn't care less about trumpeting any particular ideology or identifying with any political party. "Some of the staunchest conservatives in their political philosophy are among the most liberal when it comes to getting things done in the city," says Edwin Self, 45, Scottish-born editor of San Diego...
...century, Western art lay largely under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...