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Says Mike Casey, director of Muskie's 15-man advance team: "When we were mulling over the idea of having women do some of our advance work, the pros all said they were too soft for the job. They said women couldn't deal with politicians. I've found just the contrary. Advance men from Washington face instant hostility from local politicians, but those same politicians can't resist a female...
Economou's assignments have proved equally nagging. Despite Casey's elaborate manual of instructions, she says, "Every detail of a trip is a potential disaster." Ten minutes before Muskie was scheduled to speak in Manchester, N.H., the sound equipment went on the blink. Economou managed to scrounge up replacements with only seconds to spare...
...Sean O'Casey called Wodehouse "English literature's performing flea." Wodehouse gloried in the phrase, and used it as the title of a volume of reminiscences. If being a performing flea isn't the greatest talent in the world, it is, nevertheless, a talent, and nowadays that's something to be treasured. Genuine performing fleas are, after all, a rarity. We could use a few more...
...Sean O'Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman...
...shadow that fell across O'Casey's Dublin during the 1920s has become the specter that terrorizes contemporary Ulster. Sections of Londonderry and Belfast are as desolated as London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh...