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Speaking as part of a Harvard Law School Forum on American sport, Cosell took Casey Stengel on for openers. "Casey Stengel was an obsolete, senile old man when he took over the Mets in 1962," he said. "This is the cold truth of the matter...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...
...Irish Republican Army, wrote Playwright Sean O'Casey in 1967, has "always had two divisions-those who carried bread in one hand and a gun in the other: and those who carried a gun in one hand and a lily in the other-the realist and the romantic." In Northern Ireland last week, the most militant members of the outlawed I.R.A. were carrying neither bread nor lilies, but only guns. Worse, they were using small children in their battles. As Belfast erupted in its worst violence since the 1969 riots between the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority...
...revisions without reaching a final decision. The regulatory paralysis has only been increased by President Nixon's delay in appointing an SEC chairman to succeed the procrastinating Hamer Budge, who resigned Dec. 31 to join Investors Diversified Services. The White House has offered the chairmanship to William J. Casey, 57, a Manhattan and Washington tax lawyer who is a partner of Leonard Hall, Republican national chairman during the Eisenhower Administration. At week's end Casey had not yet accepted the SEC post. The commission could use a firm hand. Moving into the void left by SEC dallying...
...Sitting at their drums at either side of the rear-stage in Sargent Gym, just in front of a wall of amplifiers, Kreutzmann and Hart played easily for " Casey Jones. " Kreutzmann was originally the only drummer for the band. One version of the story of Hart's ascension to the Dead, a version that's part of the large oral tradition around the band, describes it as a sudden event: " Hart was a friend of Kreutzmann's, the older drummer. He came over and played-he came up on stage at the Fillmore West and played 'Alligator' for two hours...