Word: iconoclasms
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...Christians needn't be entirely smug on the subject of destroying holy images. Iconoclasm (literally, the breaking of images) was the name of an eighth- and ninth-century movement in the Eastern church against the worship of holy pictures. In 753, the Emperor Constantine summoned a great synod to forbid image-worship forever. The synod declared it blasphemous to represent, by the dead materials of paint and carved stone, those who live with Christ. The bishops damned image-worshipers as idolators (and there is a commandment about that, is there not?). Pictures of the saints in churches were replaced...
...Aucoin's iconoclasm has long met with resistance, and his encounter with the N.R.A. is not the first time his life has been threatened. This week he will receive the key to his hometown of Lafayette, La., but growing up there in the 1970s--openly gay, conspicuously tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.) and unapologetically nonconformist--he was "the No. 1 pariah at school," recalls Aucoin, now 38. "Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker." He dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried...
...courage, Mother Teresa's selflessness, Marilyn Monroe's exuberance, Pele's superhuman skills, Anne Frank's immortality. And the parables: the Kennedy melodrama, the latter-day silence of Muhammad Ali, the brutal grace of Bruce Lee's art, the all-too-human Diana, Lindbergh's dalliance with Hitler. Iconoclasm is inherent in every icon, and heroes can wear different faces in the afterlives granted them by history and remembrance...
...always so beloved in town--in the 1890s, it was proposed that a sign above the rear of Symphony Hall should read "exit in case of Brahms." No one ran for the door, however, as Haitink masterfully mustered a grandiose yet precise reading. At the risk of iconoclasm, his technique is much clear and less irksome than Uncle Seiji's. To be fair, however, the first movement lost focus en route to the slinky final recapitulation...
...always so beloved in town--in the 1890s, it was proposed that a sign above the rear of Symphony Hall should read "exit in case of Brahms." No one ran for the door, however, as Haitink masterfully mustered a grandiose yet precise reading. At the risk of iconoclasm, his technique is much clearer and less irksome than Uncle Seiji's. To be fair, however, the first movement lost focus en route to the slinky final recapitulation...