Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rowan castigates the self-sufficient woman his wife has become and complains that he wants his "compliant, noncombative, dependent, absorbed-in-me girl back." MacDonald responds with two long, tough letters describing Rowan's attitude as an "adolescent dream" and maintaining that his celebrity has given him an "iron insistence upon being totally right in all things." After this, does Rowan take MacDonald's well-intentioned scolding to heart and renew the friendship on a deeper, more self-aware basis? Or does he bitterly take offense and break everything off? Even readers who get out about as often as Willie...
...elections were for real, I started thinking: Fury, you're not getting any younger. One day you'll be old and feeble, and when that day comes, won't it be nice to be able to say to yourself, "Rutger, you ruled over a nation of slaves with an iron list...
Maybe it is time to open our bags, to stop taking the fatal risk of mistrust. We do not know each other well enough, and this is our common misfortune. The Iron Curtain is in ruins, but enough of its remnants remain standing to block our vision. We see each other through newspapers, which unfortunately are not transparent...
...past, an increase in international tension was always accompanied by increases in editorial censorship. Just after Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Andrei Zhdanov issued his notorious edict subjecting Poet Anna Akhmatova and Writer Mikhail Zoshchenko to insulting criticism. Two years later Dmitri Shostakovich's music was denounced as unpatriotic...
...those elite centers of varsity iron-pumping by no means dominate the Harvard 'health club' scene. House gyms and graduate school rooms, including a small free-weight center for Law School students, reduce the strain on the jewels of Harvard's weight-room circuit, the varsity-oriented ITT and the social...