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Driving the century-old family store to new heights is a white-haired, crew-cut retailing iconoclast, Richard Benjamin Gump, 55, grandson of the founder. When Dick Gump took over full management in 1947, his father, A. (for Abraham) Livingston Gump, had already built the store into one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient's art. Dick shocked Gump's older patrons by streamlining the temple-quiet, museumlike showrooms into tastefully contemporary salesrooms. And though the Oriental accent still dominates, Gump's small task force of buyers, led by Dick himself, scours...
...revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
Died. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 67, Parisian-born novelist-physician, a tortured ("I cashed in on my neuroses") iconoclast and virulent anti-Semite whose deafening, nightmarish and slang-ridden novels, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, set the salons aboil before his conviction (later rescinded) as a World War II collaborator with the Nazis; of a stroke; in Meudon, France...
...bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed to mutter something about "remarkably little to do with Christianity." The Lawrenceman went...
...Waco, subscriptions soon deluged him in the currency of a dozen lands. The 16-page Iconoclast was a potpourri of flamboyant comment on all things, laced with spleen, belly laughs, erudition, ribaldry and scorpion satire. Often intemperate, rarely constructive, Brann could be-and was-accused of doing more harm than good. But it was hard to fault his eloquence. On the approaching marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty...