It is the quality of number that explains its power to 
create the effect of an icon or an inclusive compressed image. 
Such is its use in newspaper and magazine reporting, as : 
“Cyclist John Jameson, 12, Collides with Bus,” or “William 
Samson, 51, New Vice-President in Charge of Brooms.” By rule 
of thumb the journalists have discovered the iconic power of 
number.

     Since Henri Bergson and the Bauhaus group of artists, to 
say nothing of Jung and Freud, the nonliterate and even 
antiliterate values of tribal man have in general received 
enthusiastic study and promotion. For many European artists 
and intellectuals, jazz became one of the rallying points in their 
quest for the integral Romantic Image. The uncritical 
enthusiasm of the European intellectual for tribal culture 
appears in the exclamation of the architect Le Corbusier on