Word: wryness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first four are--like Updike's physical flaws--easily forgiven. The self-consciousness often comes as a wryness, a repetition of amusing bits of personal history which balance the self-importance with a likeable self-deprecation...
...analytic intelligence, the wryness and ironic wit with which 28 of them recount their experiences there make their story all the more persuasive...
These ideas are not meant to be taken altogether seriously; Leib's artistry in creating a fine one-act play, and the softpedalled wryness of the pretentious program notes (including quotes from Kafka, Steiner, and Beckett, as well as Wittgenstein) only enhance the subtlety of what amounts to an elaborate parody of an absurdist drama. This is not to say that Leib does not believe in an absurdist view of the universe--he clearly does. He just doesn't believe in writing a play about it. His focus is not on the ideas themselves, which are, as Terry should...
...What they don't know won't hurt them, as my father would say," the other man says with his wryness. "I'd like to know myself. It's like...what's the next chapter, you know? They're probably edited, you know? That's what I mean. WHO KNOWS? I mean, here-we-sit-broken-hearted-and-for-all-we-know-the-war-is-started. It seems like we're kind of like...rabbits...