Word: iconoclastic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a decade Schlesinger was at the center of the nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was fired by one President, sensed the time to depart another. A rare repository of current history, Schlesinger is taking long looks at the world on these autumn days...
THEODORE WHITE, author: Senator Pat Moynihan in the sense that he led an internal revolt against the dominant, the liberal tradition of the U.S. And Ralph Nader is a leader. He called the corporations to account. Ben Bradlee has been the supreme iconoclast of American journalists. He'd expose his own mother. He and Abe Rosenthal [executive editor of the New York Times] changed the course of American journalism. I'd also add CBS Producer Don Hewitt (60 Minutes) because he made reality exciting...
...Stone, 71, iconoclast and retired political newsletter writer: "Retirement is terrible. It's a vestibule to death. Unless you have something new, such as my Greek studies...
...past few years, Zappa has become increasingly monomaniacal regarding his music, Though an iconoclast who deplauds seriousness of any kind, he works like a demon in the recording studio, With enough original material on tape to press at least twenty albums, he has long since become a faultlessly conscientious producer. And as a performer, he rehearses his bands unmercifully, six hours a day for months before a tour, "getting it right." The ultimate indication of his extreme nature is his renaming of the Mothers of Invention. They are now simply "Zappa...
Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...