Word: iconoclastic
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...cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast Hormel shocked fellow packers by initiating a radical annual-wage plan to help his employees ride out seasonal employment fluctuations, later expanded benefit programs to include joint-earnings systems and a profit-sharing trust, took unceasing pride in his claim that no Hormel executive ever lived more than a block away from...
...Baltimore, Iconoclast H. L. Mencken, 73, startled an interviewer with some relatively kindly comments on things in general. As he puffed on a long cigar and sipped some Canadian ale, Mencken conceded that Dwight Eisenhower is not a bad President. A "better-than-average President," said Mencken, and doing well "for a general." All this was a sign to his friends that Mencken, who has denounced every U.S. President since Teddy Roosevelt, is mellowing. Only once did Mencken unleash a hearty blast. General Douglas MacArthur, he said, is "a dreadful fraud, who seems to be fading satisfactorily...
...best of the month's fiction is the work of a graduate Junior Fellow Geoffrey Bush. His "A Great Reckoning in a Little Room" combines, to considerable dramatic affect, imagined selections from Christopher Marlowe's diary and letters. Bush has caught the spirit of two men one an iconoclast and a great author, the other a conformist and his betrayer...
...Whose iconoclast grandmother, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, backed the defunct pinko Compass (TIME...
...possible "in the early twenties . . . to hire the recording secretary of the Classical High School debating society-a man whose mordant irony reminded his auditors of Disraeli and Brann the Iconoclast, although he had scarcely turned 16 -to sift your ashes and beat your carpets at 30? an hour. Even I find it almost too fantastic to credit, and, mind you, I was the recording secretary...