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(Chatterbox is not so fin de siècle as to contemplate that this president would take office as Roosevelt did--succeeding a predecessor who dies in office.)
Boomer Irony is, after all, a distinctly fin de siècle phenomenon.
These, he explained, were a "constructive" editorial policy for the country in which the paper is located and an appreciation of history: "We are all moving towards what is in a sense the end of history, the fin de siècle , and I believe this is the right time to be alive.
The third was Slate 's own Chatterbox, who argues for irony on the charmingly loopy ground that it is a fin de siècle condition, and that one corrective for the fin de siècle condition is, historically, the election of non-ironic presidents, whose ranks might include not just Al Gore and Bill Bradley but also the frightening Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes.
Although Schnitzler wrote Traumnovelle when he was partially deaf and had withdrawn from the world, he chose to set the novella a quarter-century earlier, at the fabled Viennese fin de siècle , when Freud was spinning out NC-17-ish interpretations of dreams (he and Schnitzler were correspondents) and Schnitzler himself was attempting to beat Casanova's record for the most orgasms with the most women.