Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denis Donoghue, on leave from University College in Dublin, may be the first professor in the history of the Summer School to be evicted from Boylston Auditorium because of the size of his classes. Students in Donoghue's courses on Modern British and American Poetry (which he is pleased to hear described as a "fun course") and Modern British Drama undergo the hardships of doing without reading lists and sitting on the stage and in the aisles...
Cambridge is quite a change from Dublin, where the professor has lectured approximately ten hours a week for about nine years (with a three-year interval in the "unreal, Kafka-like prison of the Irish Civil Service"). So far, the vitality and the variety to be found in Cambridge appeal to Donoghue, although he would not like to settle permanently amidst the clamor of urban life. He feels that "the range of conversation" and the "multiplicity of viewpoints" here are "wider than at any other European university." He finds the faculty also very "lively and flexible in their viewpoints...
Professor Donoghue cannot imagine how a person can keep up with the torrid pace of life in our larger cities, particularly New York. He feels that a man must lead a "marginal equivalent of existence" amid such surroundings, and prefers the tranquility of his Dublin home, where he lives with his wife and six children (his share of "helping to alleviate the Irish population decline"). Some men, he acknowledges, may be able to live amidst a fast pace while still keeping "a silent place in their hearts" but such a life...
...third prizes for Irish poetry and Gaelic recitation. Young Ireland's horizons are being broadened by the foreign students who have been flocking to Irish universities, where they comprise nearly 17% of total enrollment; most come from Afro-Asian countries, where the distinctive accent of ex-colonial, nonaligned Dublin has become something of a status symbol. The visiting students, in turn, have generated new interest in language and history courses among their Irish friends...
...much sexier and more frequent, ex plains Justice Minister Haughey, that the censors have been told to go easy with the scissors, "or else our cinemas won't get any films at all." Another sign of the new liberality is a scheduled visit by the Bolshoi Ballet to Dublin this month, for Irish mistrust of the intri-guous Russians is so keen that they have yet to recognize the 45-year-old Soviet government...