单词 | angry young man |
释义 | > as lemmasangry young man angry young man n. (also with capital initials) a young man who is dissatisfied with and outspoken against existing social and political structures (abbreviated AYM); cf. angry n. 2.Often used specifically to refer to any of several British writers of the 1950s, such as John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, and Colin Wilson, whose work was characterized by social realism, anti-establishment attitudes, and themes of class conflict. John Osborne, whose play Look Back in Anger was first performed on 8 May 1956, is particularly associated with the phrase (see quot. 19572). There seems to be no direct connection between the use of the expression by the writer Leslie Paul (1905–85) as the title of his autobiography (see quot. 1951) and its later specific use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [noun] > discontent with prevailing state of affairs > person angry young man1951 angry1957 AYM1958 high blood1987 1951 L. Paul (title) Angry young man. 1956 Daily Mail 12 July 6/2 In the theatre this post-war type is typified by John Osborne's angry young man Jimmy Porter. 1956 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. x. 3/2 His play [sc. Look Back in Anger] is..an intense and frequently eloquent testament of a generation composed of ‘angry young men’ who have come of age in the post-war era. 1957 Times 12 Mar. 10/4 Even in his seventies he [sc. Wyndham Lewis] continued to be treated by many critics as a promising ‘angry young man’. 1957 G. Fearon in Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 8/7 I had read John Osborne's play. When I met the author I ventured to prophesy that his generation would praise his play while mine would, in general, dislike it... ‘If this happens,’ I told him, ‘you would become known as the Angry Young Man.’ In fact, we decided then and there that henceforth he was to be known as that. 1984 P. Larkin in Listener 29 Mar. 24/2 A middle-aged Angry Young Man with a writer's block caused by having his novels computerised. 1990 Maclean's 2 Apr. 11/2 On television he looked too intense, too right on, a tad too much the angry young man. 2010 Independent 23 Mar. 14 (heading) Paul Sandby was an angry young man who turned his fire on William Hogarth. < as lemmas |
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