Word: dublin
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...immigrants have never stopped coming. Today, more than half of New York State's 16 million inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York City alone has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel, more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. From the tangled threads of the state's 75 national and racial groups is woven the most intricate political tapestry in U.S. history...
...know by heart." Other program items: Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Brahms's Second Symphony. At the end, the orchestra and Conductor Charles Munch (whose wife had died in Paris three days before) received a ten-minute ovation. Next day, before a top-drawer audience in Dublin, the ovation was repeated. But the Irish Times critic was totally unmoved by the sentimentality of the occasion. "The orchestra is very accomplished," he wrote, after the Cork concert. "It plays with great precision and a fine, sensitive response to the conductor's expressive beat. The accomplishment, however...
...after the last Earl had died, his heir, Mrs. Beatrice Grosvenor, was forced to put 8,500 acres of the 9,000-acre estate up for sale so that she could pay off a ?70,000 ($196,000) inheritance tax. But she could find no buyer. Irishmen in Dublin, afraid that Killarney would fall into unsympathetic hands, started a fund-raising campaign, could raise only ?10,000. In the U.S., sharing similar fear, the Bartenders Association of Boston voted $1,000 (?357) for a "Save Killarney" fund-also not enough...
...Dublin's Mayor (Contd...
...George A. Floris of London suggests that, because Christian Dublin has elected a Jew as its lord mayor, Israelis should "stop campaigning against the . . . Christian missionaries in their midst [July 30]." Has it occurred to Mr. Floris that perhaps one reason why there is such good will in Dublin is that there are no Jewish missionaries in Ireland trying to convert the Christians to Judaism...