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...theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican Army terrorist operations and was thus additionally charged with smuggling firearms and explosives to the I.R.A. in Northern Ireland. At one point during her arraignment in Dublin...
...difficulties of accepting crafts as pure art are exemplified by the exhibit. Although the pieces are beautiful and sensitively mounted on cork slabs, they are ultimately only exercises in one method of making pottery--the wheel method. The wheel method operates on much the same principle as a lathe. The medium (in this case clay) rotates so that all applied distortions become symmetrical and unified; abstraction becomes constricted. The other methods of pottery include slab construction, in which the potter joins planes of clay to make rectangular or free-form shapes, and coil construction, in which he carefully rolls cords...
Growing up in a solidly Irish-American district of North Cambridge, O'Neill developed a fiercely partisan love for Democratic politics. His stern, teetotaling father, the son of a bricklayer who came over from County Cork, was a local political power. For 35 years he was head of the city's water system, with 1,700 men on his payroll and access to hundreds of other jobs. When O'Neill was a boy, torchlight parades still surged through the narrow streets of Cambridge, and candidates shouted their speeches on street corners. In 1928, already a veteran campaign...
...conversation is still vivid in my mind today: He was polite, relaxed, attentive and unhostile. He nodded, reflected, took off his spectacles, put hand to chin and studied me a while, knocked out his pipe-ash on the round cork knob within the center of a pewter bowl, looked out the window with a weary sense of aging decency, pressed thumb and finger to his brow in old and practiced sense of sorrowful exhaustion. He said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here...
REMEMBER Milo Minderbinder, in Catch-22? His syndicate, M & M Enterprises, sold cork in New York, shoes in Toulouse, ham in Siam, nails in Wales, tangerines in New Orleans, and coals in Newcastle. And halfway through World War II, he contracted with the American military authorities to bomb the German-held highway bridge at Orvieto and with the German military authorities to defend the highway bridge at Orvieto with anti-aircraft fire against his own attack...