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Psephologists will be sorting out the particulars for months to come, but one trend was clear in last week's off-year election returns: a solid vote for sanity. The people shunned way-out ideas and candidates, preferred plainspokenness to blarney, supported caution over experiment, and trusted what they could see for themselves, instead of what traditional politics and machine politicians told them. The many referendums on the ballots reflected a growing public demand for more efficient and less meddlesome government. The political center not only held; it grew all the more crowded...
Such virtues, however, come smothered in blather and blarney. Donleavy has always been among the most mannered of writers, and his habits increasingly seem designed as distractions. He constructs paragraphs as if the Irish government had imposed a tax on verbs. Words...
...join the IRA, and behind the bar rolled Tommy, the spherical bartender who had taken enough time off from hustling customers at the pool table to come back and draw a few glasses of Guiness stout. Feeling serene, I sat down for a night of beer and blarney...
Even the mild-mannered Fitzsimmons, though, has been touched by some of the McCurdy blarney. Reflecting on the 23-day training period, Fitzsimmons quipped, "We knew that if we got through the camp we'd be either dead or the IC4A champs...
...talking. He talks so nice. Not too bitter, not too sweet. A mixture of blarney and bravura. Hell's Kitchen boy, you know...