Word: cuchulain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Program," well in advance of the New Deal, advocated a minimum wage, unemployment compensation and old-age insurance. But on foreign policy, Catholic bishops formed ranks behind whatever Administration was in power. "Being an immigrant church, we wanted to show we were more American than anyone," explains Father Cuchulain Moriarty, who runs San Francisco's archdiocesan social justice commission...
...class was nervous: here it was the first day, and the teacher was already talking about Yeats. No mention of exams or papers or grading policies, or even a syllabus. And a bad stammer marred his soft brogue as he spoke briefly of gyres and regenerative cycles and Cuchulain and the Easter rising. But he was a dramatic figure, backlit by the sun through the room's only window. And when he started to read poems--when his stammer disappeared in the steady flow of rich, musical verse--the students were enchanted, as much by him as his subject...