The only similarly radical example of a musician who organized his life and his musical activity around an ideal of performance is, of course, Glenn Gould, who, in 1964, renounced the concert stage and decided solely to perform in the recording studio.
The most radical example of this came earlier this month from HSBC, which has introduced a panel of just 43 approved conveyancers (the bigger lenders have hundreds or even thousands) and now tells customers that while they are free to choose a different lawyer, they will have to pay HSBC's separate legal costs on top, rather than a single price for both.
Its back is turned against Williams's far-off statue, as if also against his radical example of what New World societies might represent.
"I think it has to do with Obama's family moving into the White House, which could be the most radical example of neighborhood integration this country has ever seen," said Ms. Rugg, an editor of a forthcoming play anthology, "Reimagining 'A Raisin in the Sun,' " which includes "Clybourne Park".
Perhaps the most radical example of male dominance in computer science is the field of image processing.
There have, of course, been some genuinely surprising and radical examples of leadership.
After his death, Monet's influence on contemporary art ebbed among the avant-garde, who favoured the more radical examples of artists such as van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp.
There may well be more radical examples of the same phenomenon: some hallucinogenic drugs are reported to leave subjects with the impression that they have had vast temporal tracts of experience (centuries, epochs) in only a few objective hours.
Microsoft called the idea "a radical and extreme example of government regulation that would be bad for consumers and for the high-tech economy".
