Word: ironyã
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...hope of favors yet to come” from her father, a Yale-educated oil magnate. When Anne Chandler Bass graduated in 2000, her father donated $7 million to Harvard—a gift that now pays the salary of Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. (The delicious irony??which goes unmentioned by Golden—is that this apparently-unjust admissions break is the source of the funding that facilitates Sandel’s wildly-popular course “Justice...
...friends and neighbors, is the truest manifestation of irony. This is an irony that is so subtle and rarified that even I—merely a satirist in comparison—didn’t get it at first.You see, the final club lifestyle is one of cerebral irony??individuals playing at roles they find either repulsive or silly. Why do they do it? The reasons are varied. Perhaps to make a supremely ironic point about how excessive the American aristocracy can be? Perhaps to see how the other half lives? Perhaps, like an actor portraying a serial...
...just a little more time to sit and contemplate. As part of this style, the piece de resistance of my collection is an Urban Outfitters shirt which reads “G is for Gangsta.” I’m not ashamed of the irony??this pig-tailed, rosy-cheeked girl would much rather get rich than die tryin’.A few months ago, I faced the hardest of all T-shirt statement tasks—what do you wear to a concert, as you straddle the line between looking like a tool with...
Douglas Rae, a professor of management at Yale, acknowledged that there was “some irony?? in the situation, but said he thought it would have few implications for the reputation of corporate governance as a whole...
Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony?? and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...