Word: iconoclasts
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...THAT'S THE fate of the iconoclast-you can be used to defend precisely the evils you are attacking, mused the R?. Hon Richard Crossman, Cabinet minister and former Oxford classicist, "It's the bump of irreverence which saves you." So broke off the most subersive sentence ever uttered by a Godkin Lecturer as its author paced around his suite in the Dana Reed House last Wednesday. It indicated the agnostic flavor so prominent in this year's Godkin series, modestly entitled "Bagehot Revisited...
...philosophic plane-and it is amazing how gracefully Sartre weaves his discussion of freedom into tense dramatic situations-Orestes is an iconoclast, fervently devoted to his particular historical destiny (the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus). By assuming the burden of guilt for himself and others. Orestes becomes Sartre's symbol of moral freedom and nobility...
...millions-most of them real students, all of them deeply concerned about man's war against nature. At 52, the impatient microbiologist from Washington University in St. Louis has become the uncommon spokesman for the common man. He personifies the New Scientist-concerned, authoritative and worldly, an iconoclast who refuses to remain sheltered in the ivory laboratory. Air Pollution Expert Lewis Green calls Commoner a "Paul Revere waking the country to environmental dangers." Commoner's students agree...
...strength as record capital investment. Still, businessmen have a sense of foreboding. That anxiety has been intensified by the bearish warnings of one economist who was once ignored and ridiculed, but whose views have lately had an important influence on Government policy. He is Milton Friedman, the leading iconoclast of U.S. economics. "We are heading for a recession at least as sharp as that in 1960-61," he warns. "There is more than a 90% chance of that. There is a 40% chance of a really severe recession, such as occurred in 1957-58, when unemployment reached...
Rococo Invective. For a practicing iconoclast, however, Mencken chose surprisingly feeble icons of his own. As a young man, he fell for Nietzsche and his doctrinal fantasy of the Ubermensch. As misread by Mencken, Nietzsche provided license to despise the human race and delight in all things German-as epitomized by beer and Brahms. Politicians were rogues. The church was only a racket. People in general were boobs. Such were the underpinnings of Mencken's rococo invective. But when serious matters were involved, his philosophical resources were meager and his thinking often callow and jejune...