Word: ironist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly the movement itself has invited the ironist's eye. Foreigners have traditionally regarded American women with a sort of wary bemusement; they seemed a race of cool, assertive, pampered and sometimes savagely domineering women. In 1898, the Scots traveler James F. Muirhead observed, with what was surely a chauvinist's exaggeration: "Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex." Yet now the New Feminists assert-an irony that does not invalidate the argument-that it is they who are dominated...
...Bible, and the sky above them. Bigger-hearted men carve out their own living communities and bring back McCabe and Mrs. Miller, or, better still, a Wild Bunch. Hardier minds document the ravages of society up-front, eschewing allegory, in an Hour of the Furnaces. Kubrick, always an ironist, maximum exploiter of minor tools and passions, stays in a London studio--and cuts himself off from whatever roots his art grew from...
...raised up by Garrett is an almost operatic hero. His single weakness is pride, but he is saved from the stiffness of pride by an ironist's self-knowledge. The author manages to make him credible and even more or less persuades the reader to accept such verbal acupuncture as this: "Old it is true. But mark you, sir, I shall never be so old or frail that I could not spit the likes of you on the point of a rapier like a poor sparrow. I would cut you clean from your high beard to your lower...
...liberal humanist, and for that we can forgive him. And he was an ironist, for that we can thank him. The publication of Maurice is his last act of ironic humanism...
...ironist were to select a trio diametrically opposed to the Fondas of today he could do no better than to choose the Fondas of 1960. Henry had married a fourth time, to an Italian countess, Afdera. He became unrecognizably Bonifaced. Leland Hayward attended one dinner party for Afdera's friend. "For dessert they had ice cream and chocolate sauce. There was dancing, and all of a sudden those nutty Italians began throwing ice cream and sauce on the walls. I thought Hank would commit murder. But he just stood there and smiled and enjoyed...