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Article: WHO'S ANGRY NOW?(Review)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2002
- Author:
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Byline: CRAIG BROWN
The Angry Young Men by Humphrey Carpenter [pound]15.19 (0870 165 0870) Allen Lane [pound]18.99 On an evening in April, 1956, a theatre publicist called George Fearon took an unknown young playwright called John Osborne out for a drink. Fearon didn't particularly like Osborne's forthcoming play, Look Back In Anger, but was dutifully struggling to characterise it. 'I suppose,' he said to Osborne, 'you're really an angry young man.' Thus was born one of the most irritating phrases in the English language. Two months later it appeared in print for the first time, in the London Evening Standard, and before the summer was out every Tom, Dick and ...
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