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Cool is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance, style and Zeitgeist . Because of the varied and changing connotations of cool, as well its subjective nature, the word has no single meaning. It has associations of composure and self-control (cf. the OED definition) and is often used as an expression of admiration or approval. OVERVIEW | ||
| In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, British Proto-Cool Came To The Preserve Of Beaus, Fops, Dandies, Flaneurs And Poseurs, Mashers And Swells Who Combined Narcissism, Nonchalance, Wit And Hedonism English Poet And Playwright He Wrote "O Gentle Son, Upon The Heat And Flame Of Thy Distemper, Sprinkle Cool Patience", William Shakespeare, The Tragedy Of Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, The Harvard Classics, 1909–14 Act III Scene IV And | "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Othello" class="copylinks">Othello 's antagonist Iago is musing about "reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts"William Shakespeare: Othello, Act 1Dick Pountain and David Robins, Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2000Pountain and Robins, 2000 |
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| The Key Themes Of Modern European Cool Were Forged By Avant-garde Artists Who Archieved Prominence In The Aftermath Of The First World War, Most Notably Dadaists, Such As Key Dada Figures | "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Arthur_Cravan" class="copylinks">Arthur Cravan and Marcel Duchamp , and the left-wing milieu of the Weimar republic The program of such groups was often self-consciously revolutionary, a determination to scandalize the bourgeoisie by mocking their culture, sexuality and political moderationDick Pountain and David Robins, Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2000Pountain and Robins, 2000 |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Berthold_Brecht" class="copylinks">Berthold Brecht , both a committed Communist and a philandering cynic, stands as the archetype of this inter-war cool Brecht projected his cool attitude to life onto his most famous character Macheath or "Mackie Messer" (Mack the knife), in The Threepenny Opera Mackie, the nonchalant, smooth-talking gangster, expert with the switchblade, personifies the bitter-sweet strain of cool Puritanism and sentimentality are both anathema to the Cool characterDick Pountain and David Robins, Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2000Pountain and Robins, 2000 |
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| Arriving In Poland Via France, America And England, Polish Cool Stimulated The Film Talents Of A Generation Of Artists, Including | "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Andrzej_Wajda" class="copylinks">Andrzej Wajda , Roman Polanski , and other graduates of the National Film School In Łódź , as well as the novelist Jerzy Kosinski , in whose clinical prose cool tends towards the sadisticDick Pountain and David Robins, Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2000Pountain and Robins, 2000 |
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| In | "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Prague" class="copylinks">Prague , the capital of Bohemia, cool flourished in the faded Art Deco splendor of the Cafe Slavia Significantly, following the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks in 1968, part of the dissident underground called itself the "Jazz Section"Dick Pountain and David Robins, Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude, Reaktion Books Ltd, 2000Pountain and Robins, 2000 |
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