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The Irish have always cultivated the art of living, and they still have time and space for the slow perusal of race horses, the thoughtful consumption of stout, and weighty disputation in rich, foamy periods that make English English seem like verbal porridge. Ireland's traditional shanachies, its Gaelic...
To judge by the headlines, Latin America's two largest nations lurch from one political crisis to another; and to judge by their falling currency, both Brazil and Argentina are in an economic mess. The headlines are true and the financial crisis is real, but people long inured to...
their men alike." Partly because this prophecy bears a shadow-image likeness to today's world, the original, repetitious, two-volume book, skillfully pared to a highly readable single volume, has just been reissued. Often damned but still cited (the very title can turn a whole evening into disputation ), it...
"Oh,v cried Frost, "didn't he do a good one! Didn't he show the Irish all right?" Had Kennedy overcompensated for his Cuba power failure in his actions against Big Steel? Poets aside, there were many who thought so. Would he use his massive powers soon...
The President talks long and candidly about U.S. problems at home and abroad; he knows that they are there, and he knows that they are not going to dis appear overnight. He is optimistic about the U.S. economy in 1962, but disturbed about its longer-term future (see following story...