Word: celtic
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...hurricane of flying crockery, and in Leftover Life to Kill, her chronicle of that 17-year clash of egos, Caitlin Thomas, 47, sometimes wondered how she and the tosspot genius avoided killing each other. Now, in a "Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter" in Harper's, irascible, Celtic-tongued Caitlin has some heartfelt advice for her 18-year-old: "Stick, my child, for goodness' sake, to creating babies, washing nappies, and crooning lullabies. A woman's place, as Dylan never ceased to tell me in vain, is in the bed or at the sink...
...Julius Caesar invades Britain. Roman rule, firmly established by 85 A.D., brings peace to Celtic tribes...
authority on and Welsh folklore and literature retire from the Faculty this summer, professor of Celtic Languages...
...scholar in comparative literature, served as chairman and only man of the Department of Celtic, and taught a number of courses in Celtic languages and literatures. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1950, and taught at New York University. on early Irish grammar and an edition of an Irish text will keep him busy in Cambridge following his retirement...
...indigenous Berber population of what is now Algeria has been there since history be gan. A stockily built, brown-haired, light-eyed people, they have bitterly opposed successive conquerors - Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Turks and French. They always lost and always for the same reason: an almost Celtic inability to unite against a common foe. When the French landed in 1830, the Arab-Berbers of Algeria were as divided as ever, and the French found willing allies among the tribes. Even so, it took 40 years of hard fighting to subdue the country...