Asked what came next, the young iconoclast said cheerfully: "There's no next.

Mr. Masur was quite rattled when Mr. Adès, the hugely talented young British iconoclast, who had readily accepted the commission, balked at providing a message of hope.

He arrived in Paris as a young iconoclast with fire in his belly.

One could read the works of the young iconoclasts in art and letters, the most daring among them being Nietzsche.

As Einstein aged, he changed from a fierce young iconoclast to a pillar of science, resistant to advances in the very quantum ideas that he himself had brought forth.

One of the selected composers, the brilliant young iconoclast Thomas Ades, from England, readily accepted the commission but balked at Mr. Masur's request for a universal message of hope.

These young iconoclasts included Gillespie, pianist Thelonious Monk, guitarist Charlie Christian, and drummer Kenny Clarke.

By the 1940's, the once dapper young iconoclast had grown into a wizened old man of science who was widely viewed as a revolutionary thinker of a bygone era.

Irwin, played by Stephen Campbell Moore, is a young, wiry iconoclast of the new school who believes that knowledge should be spent strategically in pursuit of academic success.

Today, it's hard to reconcile the young iconoclast of the Playboy interview with the 65-year-old eminence who was last month awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush.