Word: iconoclastic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigiously built (he was six feet four), prodigiously dressed (in black suit, broad black hat and flowing black Windsor tie), a prodigious writer, talker, fighter and drinker, Pitchfork Smith worshipped at the shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...
There is nothing that Biologist Conklin wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years, not by Herren Schleiden and Schwann but by a number of men almost nobody knows...
...83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...
...Basque mother and a French-Jewish-Swiss father, Ravel kept all through life an affection for Spanish folk music, allowed its idioms to influence many of his compositions. Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal of academicians to admit him as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1905 started a row resulting in the resignation of the Conservatoire's Director FranQois Theodore Dubois...
That genial iconoclast, John R. Tunis, whose official calling in life is tennis expert, but who some time ago addressed himself to the problems of education in America, has taken another shot at the colleges of the nation in an article in the current Scribner's entitled "Selling Scholarship Short." Here the ambitious idol-smasher, not content to rest with his recent doubtful answer to the question "Was college worthwhile?" points out that a large number of the colleges in the United States are unable to get enough students to fill their halls, and hence resort to underhanded practices, from...