Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calling him an aging boy wonder and recognize that his is one of the saddest stories of success and failure in American life. Sad because such enormous promise has remained so unfulfilled for so long. Welles was 16 when he talked his way into his first starring role at Dublin's Gate Theater; 18 when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became the celebrated radio voice of Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow knows!"); 23 when he touched...
...hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...
...with the September interception by the Irish navy of a trawler loaded with seven tons of arms and ammunition for the I.R.A. In December British soldiers ambushed and killed two I.R.A. gunmen, and last month the FitzGerald government seized more than $1.6 million in suspected I.R.A. bank assets in Dublin...
Heaney, who alternates stints of teaching at Harvard with intense, productive periods of writing at his home outside Dublin, has heeded Joyce. The master of "exile and cunning" would understand the image of inspiration authenticated by Heaney's ringing lines: "That eternal fountain, hidden away,/ I know its haven and its secrecy/ although it is the night...
...will refuse to raise its revenue contributions to the Community, and there will be no money at all for Mediterranean support programs. Declared Kohl: "Anyone who blocks the entry of Spain and Portugal must bear a heavy responsibility." -By Robert T. Zintl. Reported by Bonnie Angela and Lawrence Malkin/ Dublin...