Word: iconoclastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always pleasing to find one's most tender beliefs verified by science, for the good lady often plays the iconoclast. And now, from Athens, Georgia, a city indeed well fitted to give knowledge to the world, comes the news that a child can annoy its parents in 2124 ways. Surprised as many people may be that the total is so moderate, it must be remembered that young blood eternally attempts the impossible...
Impartial critics have pronounced the Puleston expose of "Horn" able, fully documented, damning. An elderly iconoclast with a penetrating, devil-take-the-prudes outlook, Dr. Puleston does not hesitate to say privately that the horror in which most whites hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers...
Just too late to be included in the latest edition of the Papal Index Expurgatorius appears Iconoclast Henry Louis Mencken's Treatise on the Gods. The next Index will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Feb. 17). Some of his other books: Ventures into Verse, Damn-a Book of Calumny, Prejudices (six series), The American Language, Notes on Democracy...
...latest attack on current methods of education, and particularly on the existing system of College entrance examinations, comes from Dr. Little, foremost iconoclast of outworn tradition. The former president of Maine and Michigan Universities aims his shaft at an extremely vulnerable point when his discussion is confined primarily to the College Boards. A rising chorus of dissatisfaction is baying justly enough at the antiquated methods by which the secondary school graduate is forced to cut his way into college...