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Unless of course it's 9:45 a.m. already and you're haven't checked the exam schedule yet. Remember how you signed up for Celtic 130 because you thought it was Celtic 100b? Well, the rest of the class is over in Lowell Lect, right now, sweating out a translation of "Deirdire." You better get moving...
...book about a book about a man writing a book about characters who write a book about him. Under cover of this preposterous stratagem, O'Brien parodies, satirizes and otherwise spoofs a number of Irish social and literary conventions. Among them: the realistic novel, the bardic gigantism of Celtic literature, the circumlocutions of Irish journalism, the Irish anecdote, Irish prudery, and, in its wonderfully garrulous way, Irish garrulity itself...
...each Celtic, the victory meant an extra $4,143 in the bank. For Auerbach, it was his ninth N.B.A. championship and the eighth in a row, a record unmatched in any professional sport. Bill Russell, who now takes over from Auerbach as coach, gave the valedictory. "Of all the Celtic teams," said he, "this is the shortest on ability and the longest on heart." Red stood by, puffing away like Vesuvius...
...Celtic game, Sam Jones and Tom Sanders helped turn a 51-48 halftime deficit into a 72-64 fourth quarter lead with a third quarter rally in which Sanders scored 13 points in less than eight minutes. Bill Russell got seventeen points for the game and sparked the team with 28 rebounds. Royals stars Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas were held to 24 and 23 points respectively...
...planned anything special for Quincy. "Right now I'm thinking only about adding a member to the Celtic Department," he says. After that he intends to get down to this new business--learning about undergraduates. "My wife and I have always tried to entertain students, though," he says. "We're interested in what students want to do with their lives...