in a piece on O'Neill from Time magazine -
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040119-574809,00.html
- there is the following sentence towards the end:
O'Neill may not have been cut out for this town, but give him this: he does exhibit the sobriety and devotion to ideas that are supposed to be in vogue in the postironic, post- 9/11 age.
The second part of the sentence threw me for a loop - anybody have any idea where this reporter is coming from? I haven't noticed "sobriety and devotion to ideas" being particularly venerated recently. Has this statement been made elsewhere?