Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...P.G.A. Championship, John Daly got ready to hit a few practice balls last week in preparation for the International tourney at Colorado's Castle Pines Golf Club. As word spread that he was on the practice tee, a crowd gathered, whistling appreciatively as he casually knocked iron shots into the far reaches of the range...
...driving range. On neighboring tees, pros like Jose Maria Olazabal and Ian Baker-Finch broke off their own practice regimens to watch the ballistic display. A few minutes later Daly headed for the course. His first drive was a monster 364-yd. shot, followed by a 280-yd. 3-iron blast. In short order, Daly turned the 644-yd., par-5 first hole, the longest on the P.G.A. tour, into an ordinary...
...book Iron John has been 38 weeks on the best-seller list; he addresses men's gatherings around the country, speaking a fairy-tale code about "bringing the interior warriors back to life" and "riding the Red, the White and the Black Horses." He talks about each male's lost "Wild Man," that hairy masculine authenticity that began getting ruined during the Industrial Revolution, when fathers left their sons and went to work in the factories. The communion between father and son vanished, the traditional connection, lore passing from father to son. And with it went the masculine identity...
...says it was around 10 years ago that he began working on the Iron John story. "I had been giving seminars in fairy tales to support myself -- mostly to women. I realized that I had no fairy stories to teach men. In Grimm, only a few are about men. Iron John was the first I found that was clearly about the growth stages...
...book is an explication of the tale of a boy who frees a Wild Man, Iron John, whom the boy's father, the king, has locked in a cage. Iron John takes the boy into the forest and step by step teaches him the secrets of being a man. In the fullness of maturity, he becomes a man and marries his princess. Bly tires of repeating that the men's movement is not against women. Nor does the Wild Man imply savagery, brutality, aggression, obtuseness, smashing beer cans against the forehead or shooting small animals for the pleasure of watching...