Word: iconoclastic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the leading designer in the fountain renaissance is Lawrence Halprin, 61, a freewheeling iconoclast who has opinions on the shape of cities, freeways (he thinks they should be sculptures in the cityscape) and water. In the city, he says, "water affects us in the same way as does a wild animal in a zoo, pacing back and forth in his cage, beautiful and quietly desperate, controlled but with implications of wild danger." Halprin's latest work is a cascade for Seattle's Freeway Park. Like Alph, Kubla Khan's sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through...
...Great Depression. Keynes is one of the few economists who is not subjected to a sound drubbing by Galbraith. This is perhaps so because in Keynes Galbraith saw many of the qualities on which he prides himself: Keynes was an anti-establishment intellectual who thought himself rather important, an iconoclast without being a revolutionary. It is even fair to say that Galbraith revered Keynes, who provided the former with what remains today as the substance of his economic philosophy. When Keynes paid a visit to Galbraith, then director of the U.S. price control board, during World...
Edward M. Korry is one iconoclast whose political criticism of the U.S. government was so damaging that he felt the need to leave the country and settle in Britian. Korry was Nixon's ambassador to Chile during Allende's presidency, and has been one of the few upper echelon figures to tell all he knows of U.S. intervention efforts there. In a television interview last month Korry said he was told by Nixon that the United States would not tolerate a Marxist regime like Allende's in the Western Hemisphere, and that he (Nixon) had ordered the CIA to interfere...
...womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into the world," says Fallaci, 46. Is the iconoclast revealing her own sphinxlike self? Hardly. According to Fallaci, Letter is not True Confessions: "I have experienced unfulfilled maternity once," she says, "but it is not my story." Though the book is stridently feminist, the Italian version is a bestseller among both sexes. Skeptical as ever, Fallaci conceded that her book...
Then there's "Sweet Revenge," from the album of the same name. The hero is an iconoclast and finally the milkman gives him till noon to get out of town; he's come home way too soon, and "besides that, we never liked you anyway...