Word: iconoclastic
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Such are the tips offered in the thrice-weekly column of Helen Vlachos. In a country where it is a tradition that nobody listens to the opinions of a woman, everybody listens to Helen. One of Greece's most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
ORNETTE COLEMAN'S At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) is his first recording in three years, and shows the happy effects of his welcome in Sweden as a cultural force-the Willem de Kooning of jazz. Coleman has been such a successful musical iconoclast that his music no longer sounds far "outside," although his alto sax still skips and dips in a blithe, wild way. Here, it occasionally turns into a little tune and then suddenly wrenches free again. His string bass player, David Izenzon, provides a wonderfully eerie foggy bottom in Dawn...
...ABOUT NOTHING (3 LPs; RCA Victor). In Shakespeare's funniest social comedy, everything depends on the speed and sparkle of the witty duels between Beatrice and Benedick, played here by two fast-rising British stars, Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, whose voices are whirling kaleidoscopes. That young theatrical iconoclast, Franco Zeffirelli (creator of a successful beatnik Hamlet), directed this National Theater of Britain production, which one critic called as lurid and animated as a Superman comic. The performance on the recording is robust but never bumptious...
...Carrie was republished and acclaimed "a work of genius." Iconoclast Dreiser lapsed into respectability. He took over as top editor of Butterick's magazines (feminine fashions), snagged H. L. Mencken as a contributor, wrote perfervidly moral editorials -and lost his job when he tried to seduce the daughter of an assistant editor...
...dramatic technique "Treason at West Point" shrivels somewhat when set beside the play that took second prize in the Anderson Award competition, "The Reprisal." Mark Bramhall, an Osbornian iconoclast, puts a reckless, sensuous man into the collar of a divinity student, then sticks both man and collar in one corner of a writhing triangle. The dialogue blazes with violent, staccato speeches as David, the protagonist, banters and bickers with his mistress and the good girl in the piece. Occasionally the sarcasm and the yelling get childishly out of hand, but as a whole the drama is exciting, exhausting, and superb...