Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's John Frederick Collins, 42, has the necessary Irish pedigree but, two generations removed from Cork, represents the new, hard-driving breed of Irish politician typified by the Kennedys. Polio permanently crippled him in 1955 but did not prevent him from winning the mayoralty four years later and setting out to revivify Boston. He has excellent relations with the Yankee hierarchy that rules Boston's business and finance, is the ablest mayor that the city has had since James Michael Curley first flexed his young muscles. In typical Boston fashion, Collins believes that "there is a little...
...Cork, Ireland...
...first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music that keep cropping up in Remembrance of Things Past...
...ONLY CHILD, by Frank O'Connor. An account of the author's boyhood in a wet, ruined, pious, oppressed Cork slum. The heroine is O'Connor's mother; her son writes of her with eloquence and wonder...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...