Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Virginia; Gordon E. Jones, Olympia, Washington; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Missouri; Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn, New York; John E. Adams, Berkeley, California; Samuel E. Elmore Jr., Spindale, North Carolina; Henry B. Ruley, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, South Carolina; Lucio E. Gatto, Cambridge,; Charles H. Horndon, Dublin, Texas...
...deaf." As Corno di Bassetto he succeeded partly by being flip, partly by avoiding, to the scandalized amusement of his colleagues, the technical aspect of music. Nevertheless, Shaw had a sound background. With the aid of his mother and a singing teacher who had moved into their Dublin house, he had developed a skilled but "uninteresting" baritone voice, had learned the piano and mastered in great detail a tremendous lot of musical scores, mostly the operas of Meyerbeer and Verdi...
Katie Roche (by Teresa Deevy; Abbey Theatre Players, producers). While a second-string company keeps Dublin audiences happy and the Irish Free State satisfied that its subsidy is not being wasted, the renowned Abbey Theatre Players last week began an extended season in the U. S. Less sanctified since the competitive rise of the lively Dublin Gate Theatre, the Abbey is still a criterion for rounded ensemble playing...
...flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...
...pieces of Chamber Music, first published in 1907. In this sequence of lyrics 25-year-old Joyce gave his version of love's old sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius...