Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...I.R.A.-I ran away!" With that derisive taunt, British troops arriving in Ulster ten years ago dismissed the threat posed by the remnants of the old Irish Republican Army. Their laughter died quickly after the birth of the Provisional I.R.A., whose cold-eyed gunmen began ambushing Protestant loyalist civilians, policemen and the newly arrived soldiers with ruthless efficiency. But a decade of Provo bloodshed, climaxed by the wanton murder of Lord Mountbatten in Southern Ireland last August, has eroded much of the I.R.A.'s support in the largely Catholic Republic. "They started well but now they're Communists...
...many poets, British and American, during the fifties and the sixties. He also made it known that he was available to lecture, provided that the fee was right. The lecture he gave at Harvard in 1947 on Don Quixote as part of a series commemorating the quatercentenary of the birth of Cervantes is still talked of, for he had consumed a few too many Martinis before lecturing, began by apologizing for his new set of dentures, and then launched upon Don Quixote by admitting that he'd never managed to read that novel through to the end, and doubting...
...youthful are excluded from Old Love, it is because the au thor knows that through his wrinkled courtiers and faded coquettes he can show the entire range of human suffering and enlightenment, from birth to the grave - and, sometimes, beyond. If the tales sometimes seem melodramatic, too filled with coincidence or emotional trauma, well, so is the world they reflect. To Isaac Bashevis Singer, that arena is yet another story, a narrative he calls "God's novel." Its plot, he says, may be "inconsistent, sensational, antisocial, cryptic, decadent, vulgar." But, he admits, it "has suspense. One keeps reading...
...other option, which could be pursued at the same time, is to beef up the CCA slate effort. The CCA has been tainted almost from its birth 40 years ago by the support of the wealthy few. Even today, it is common to hear complaints about the Brattle St. crowd running the city, about newcomers governing the CCA. The group must shed that image to establish a base in conservative and ethnic districts of the city, especially East Cambridge...
...anti-condo" councilors. And the usual number of nasty rumors and charges circulated the city. Perhaps the most widely-voiced and least effective concerned David Sullivan. "Psssst," people would say, elbowing your ribs. "Did you know his name is really Solomon?" It isn't, at least according to his birth certificate. But none of the charges seemed to have had much effect on traditional voting patterns...