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...wood, whose sentences are woven with a warp of aspics' fangs and woof of fire." The language came so naturally that in three years of publishing in Waco, then a town of 25,000, he built a phenomenal worldwide circulation of 120,000 for his one-man monthly Iconoclast. It also tore Waco into feuding factions, got Brann himself kidnaped, beaten and almost lynched, caned and horsewhipped at pistol point, and finally shot to death...
Last week Editor Brann was very much alive. His words smoked and crackled in the pages of Brann and the Iconoclast (University of Texas; $3.95), by Charles Carver-and burned again in Waco. The book sold briskly and set such old arguments raging as the one between Texas Naturalist Roy Bedichek, 79, and his wife. Fifty years ago, a bitter dispute over Brann's views almost broke their engagement. Shortly before the book came out, when Mrs. Bedichek learned that her husband had written its introduction, she almost broke up a dinner party with her angry objections. Brann...
Lawrence College's Economist Mandell Morton Bober, 65, intense, deadpan expert on Marx, general iconoclast and most quoted man on the Appleton (Wis.) campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would...
Hail to Sol Randall: iconoclast, philosopher, non-seeker after the ranking deity of the U.S.: Success. Sol correctly senses the futility of making a success out of marriage with a social-climbing, materialistic female, so he faces the breakup without regret. . . . The ills that beset the Randalls can be found to a greater or lesser degree in so many U.S. marriages and in Yolaine's edict: "No money...
...portraying a village freethinker who was at his happiest mocking the beliefs of his neighbors and making life miserable for the new minister. What was more impressive, he stayed consistent throughout and was even given the play's last, defiant line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain of and delighted by the results of prayer. The show was wittily produced and directed by George...