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Million-Dollar Index. Great Books is the fruit of an inspired collaboration between an intellectual with a taste for "business romance" and a hard-driving salesman with a rare knack for marketing culture. The intellectual is restless Mortimer J. Adler, 59, a martini-sipping scholastic iconoclast who first imposed himself on the national consciousness as a University of Chicago philosophy of law professor and a protégé of former Chicago Chancellor Robert Hutchins (who still holds the title of editor of the Great Books). In 1943 Adler scraped up a $60,000 grant to begin work...
...college football player in the U.S. this season is a gangling, astigmatic, pigeon-toed son of a shoemaker who sleeps on the floor, runs in the street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play is going...
Mencken, a selection by Guy J. Forgue. The great American iconoclast of the '20s plays at two of his favorite roles-music critic and man of letters-in these excellent samplers...
...Funiculo to the Brahms Second Symphony. Mencken's writings on music, which appeared in his newspaper columns and in the two magazines he edited (Smart Set and American Mercury), show neither the musical erudition of Britain's Ernest Newman nor the impeccable taste of that other musical iconoclast, George Bernard Shaw. Mencken's ears were pretty well shut to the 20th century: Stravinsky, he insisted, "never had a musical idea in his life," and Schoenberg was a "tinpot revolutionist" dealing in "cacophony." But he knew the music of the great 19th century German symphonists almost note-perfectly...
...once wrote, "I am vainest of Bible Belt, booboisie, smuthound and Boobus americanus." The list is revealing. It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat. The fate of a successful iconoclast is to be buried with the icons he smashed...