Word: behan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...OUTLINING his moral code. Brendan Behan said" I respect kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law: I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." By this point in his life, 1959. Behan had mellowed considerably, the former impassioned rebel who, twenty years earlier-as a sixteen-year old member of the Irish Republican Army-was arrested in Liverpool for the possession...
...Meehan (Brooke, Behan) 5:50, Y--Lawrence (Brugman, Castraberti) 8:02, Y--Brugman (unassisted) 10:14, H--G. Olson (Turner, M. Olson) 11:56. Period 2: Y--kilroy (Crerar, Castraberti) 10:44, H--G. Olson (McDonald) 11:10, H--Connors (Powers, Mangano) 14:04, H--Burns (Garrity) 17:09. Period 3: no scoring...
...Delaney, now 44, owed $24,000 to the Irish tax collector and was preparing to emigrate to the U.S. Then the Haughey bill was passed. Delaney stayed, and Ireland retained one of its more colorful national assets. In his roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from scrap bronze that he has melted...
...room replete with the best juke box in Cambridge (it's not all Irish Rovers). Casual drinkers can also order food--the onion rings are first-rate--but for the purists, the atmosphere at Cronin's should be food enough for the soul. Only a dart board and Brendan Behan, singing dirty songs in the back corner are missing...
Shnayerson's own biography could make story material for Harper's. He was born Robert Beahan, the son of a playwright and a distant cousin of Brendan Behan. His mother's second marriage was to a New York surgeon, Ned Shnayerson, who adopted him when he was eight. Shnayerson was subsequently shipped off to a succession of twelve schools. "It was," he recalls, "a miserable but interesting childhood, the kind that-if you survive-makes you stronger for having had it." After World War II service in the Navy (fleet oilers, submarines), he worked briefly...