Word: iconoclastically
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...related to the symphonies of Beethoven. Even the grating H.L. Mencken did not manage to cut through the spoon bread. After a smart assessment of the Sahara of the beauxarts, Mencken paused to mourn the passing of a more "cultured" South that existed only in legend. The old iconoclast had swallowed the antebellum myth almost whole. And so have the generations that followed...
DIED. Henry Merritt Wriston, 88, president of Brown University (1937-55) and blue-ribbon Government panelist; in Manhattan. At Brown, Wriston established a reputation as an iconoclast, de-emphasizing survey courses and attracting top professors and freeing them of administrative tasks. Describing himself as "a perpetually dissatisfied Republican," Wriston defended academic freedom from assaults by the House Un-American Activities Committee as vigorously as he opposed the New Deal. In 1954 he headed John Foster Dulles' committee for the reorganization of the diplomatic service, and in 1960 he directed the President's Commission on National Goals, an ambitious...
Sofu is not so much an iconoclast as a breath of Blue Wind in Japan's traditionally hermetic culture. He is an accomplished painter, in both Oriental and Occidental styles. His spiny wooden and metal sculptures have been exhibited in New York, Milan and Paris. He is considered by some to be among his country's finest calligraphers. The ikebana that the Grass Moon master teaches and practices appeals to modern Japanese-and Westerners-for whom visual impact is more important than spiritual complexities...
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...