Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast here, however, as an Irish colleen, still in her teens and fresh off the farm, who falls in love with a man (Peter Finch) more than twice her age, a writer of sorts who lives on Dublin Mountain alone and seems to like it. But he likes Kate too, and he meets her for tea. "Young girls fill me with sadness," he tells her with a little sigh. "They want so much." Kate wants everything life and love have to offer, and one night she decides she has waited long enough. "Kate, you soft wild girl," he murmurs, shaking...
...state and private schools. Instead of the usual diet of Wordsworth and Silas Marner, the students get kitchen-sink selections from Hemingway on the birth of a baby, D. H. Lawrence on a son's quarrel with his mother, Koestler on a Communist execution, Joyce on a Dublin funeral. Holbrook's first book on education-combining theory, sample student compositions, and Holbrook's interpretations of their efforts-is required reading at most teacher-training colleges. As his just-published third book, The Secret Places, shows, his instructional message never wavers. Picturing a scrawled page from Picasso...
...tries to act like an insurance man who gets word of a major promotion about five minutes too late-the twerp has just posted a sizzling letter of resignation. Can he get the letter back before it flies from Dublin to London? He rushes to the mailbox. "Sorry," says the mailman, "it's state property now." He tries to rob the mails. "Sorry," says a Dublin cop, "you can tell it to the judge." He cuts and runs to the airport. "Sorry," says the pilot of a chartered plane as it nose-dives at a hedgerow. "Never flew this...
...paper chase, see, and it may well have them hollering for more on the summer-camp circuit. But customers with mature expectations will probably wonder how Dublin's Abbey Players, who take most of the supporting roles, were ever persuaded to mix good Irish spirits with such cheap fizz. Faith now, and what happens every time the Abbey people get their Irish up and a scene respectably started? Director Andrew Stone, a Hollywood type who seems to have no trouble standing Pat, summarily lowers the Boone...
...course we're always waiting for a new revelation," remarked Denis Donoghue, professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, at a colloquium on "Modern Poetry Today" Tuesday night. In the absence of such a vision, he and his two fellow panelists discussed their topic informally without reaching any substantial agreement...