Word: iconoclasts
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This diatribe against smoking made me want to light up, to be an iconoclast. But I followed through on my resolution to quit, feeling pangs of solidarity with the smokers I left behind...
...Michel de Nostredame in 1503 in St. Remy, Provence, to a family of converted Jews, Nostradamus achieved celebrity as a physician long before his foray into prophesy. After excelling as a medical student at Montpelier, he enjoyed unprecedented success in treating the 1546 charbon, the Black Death. Always the iconoclast, he achieved his results by rejecting traditional treatments such as bleeding and, instead, stressing hygiene and diet, and giving his patients lozenges made of rose petals and other herbs (really, vitamin C). He seems truly to have been ahead of his time...
...thing to remember about Bob Kerrey is not that he's an ornery iconoclast (the man will sometimes disagree for the sake of disagreeing), not that he hates being bridled (just try to get him to follow a schedule), not that he's ambivalent about Bill Clinton (and a lot of other things), but that he's a good soldier...
...help me imagine what Harvard would be like under the rule of Lin, allow me to invoke the notorious and always amusing academic iconoclast Camille Paglia...
After reading G. Brent McGuire's recent editorial ("Confessions of an Iconoclast," opinion, May 3, 1994), I am left wondering whether he is calling for rational discourse, as he claims, or radical political action, as he has done...