Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, all teams went through calisthenics and preliminary play formation. Intramural Director Dolph Samborski watched (above) while Leverett Coach Paul Staley drilled quarterback Bucky O'Connor (right) and halfback Johnny Bethell in the intricacies of the Bunnies' T-formation. Staley, Dartmouth captain in 1950, directed Leverett to the House Championship last year...
...startled; it was almost like finding a Goethe in a peat croft. But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty. O'Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every step is a literary...
...whole play by Sean O'Casey. The Shadow of a Gunman, and a handsomely turned short story by Elizabeth Bowen, An Evening in Anglo-Ireland, bring in the iron theme of revolution. The book rounds out with stories by Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty and a dozen others, a couple of eloquent political manifestoes, a little theologizing, a winsome recollection of Yeats by Oliver Gogarty, the Sirens section of Joyce's Ulysses, a late play by Yeats. About a third of the pieces, the editors note, have not previously been printed...
...EDWARD CONNOR New York City...
...hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing...