Word: iconoclastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priests, brothers and nuns teach about 2,500,000 grammar school, highschool, college and seminary students. Last week as Catholic schools were opening for the year, many a Catholic teacher was scandalized to hear orthodox religious education roundly and rudely excoriated, flayed not by some Protestant iconoclast but by a Jesuit of good repute...
...cubism and surrealism. Says she: "Sanity in Art means soundness, rationalism, a correct integration of the art work itself in accordance with some internal logic. We know sanity is often difficult to define, and we also know insanity is often apparent at a glance. ... I have been called an iconoclast, and indeed I am one, in that...
WILL SHAKSPERE: FACTOTUM AND AGENT - Alden Brooks - Round Table Press ($3). Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems. Iconoclast Brooks says the real "Shakespeare" was a syndicate (Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nashe...
Henry Louis Mencken has filled some 15 books and countless heads with his brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects...
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