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Within three years it got a director who has been there ever since: foot-shuffling, pipe-puffing Alvin Saunders Johnson, a Nebraska farm boy and an educational iconoclast. He made it a unique adult school, short of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but far above the dreary, text-bound trade schools which pass for adult education in most U.S. cities. Its faculty is heavily loaded with crack refugee professors from Europe. It keeps school in a modernistic, seven-story, Joseph Urban-designed building in Greenwich Village, now has 5,700 pupils...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
...groove of Texas politics, where a good show is worth more than a bundle of issues. As a youth he began patterning his clothes and hairdo after William Jennings Bryan's. He sharpened his naturally agile tongue on the works of Texas' once-famed skeptic, Brann the Iconoclast. He became an enthusiastic lodge-joiner and speaker at fraternal gatherings far & wide. By the time he was ready to run for Congress in 1916 he knew all the tricks...
...their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice of God. Others who have read The Romantic Comedians, but not Vein of Iron, consider her a light-minded iconoclast from whose irony nothing is safe...
...military mind." One of the notable exceptions was onetime Chief of Naval Operations William Daniel Leahy, whom the President last week called in from Puerto Rico, reportedly to help coordinate the confused preliminaries to rearmament. The Army's George Marshall is also exceptional-a brilliant, flexible iconoclast whose war on mental dry rot has done much to stimulate and modernize the service. But even he must placate work with and through traditionalists who outnumber him. Last week the Army-Navy commands' shortage of officers like George Marshall was more serious than any lack of guns. Unless the human...