Word: blarney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play was produced four years before Pinter's. The brothers make passes at Michael's wife and even suggest using his home as a whorehouse. Michael is faced down, raged at and humiliated by his father, who is a perfect blend of aging bull and undiminished blarney. Michael's wife urges him to stand up for his rights. But he is paralyzed by a nagging sense of masculine inadequacy...
Stuff and nonsense, or sheer blarney. For Moynahan, though he is currently disguised as an English professor at Rutgers, is really one of those nonstop Irish-American storytellers, the kind that hold Boston barrooms at bay with: "Wait! Wait, boys! And then there's the one about...
Irony is the first resort of the oporessed. Operating out of two languages, Gaelic and English, the lads found they could shoot up a smoke screen of Irish bulls and blarney that no colonial officer could penetrate. Forbidden to write patriotic songs, they wrote love poems to a girl that sounded suspiciously like Eire, hate poems couched as hymns and generally got things so snarled up that they even have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions...
...also think the American voters will have the good sense to recognize Mr. Nixon's description of the loss of Saigon as a 'tactical blunder' as so much election year blarney...
Luci & Lynda Bird. For all the troubles swirling about him, Johnson was still quick to bristle at charges that his Great Society is being sacrificed to foreign crisis. "It's just a bunch of blarney," he declared. "When I hear this argument that we can't protect freedom in Europe, Asia, or our own hemisphere and still meet our domestic problems, I think this is a phony argument. It's just like saying I can't take care of Luci because I have Lynda Bird...