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Author Murdoch is at her best when she delves into the Irish temperament, with its prudery, touchiness and vulgarity, and she displays poetic gifts approaching genius when she dwells lovingly on the sights and sounds of Dublin or describes the peculiar quality of Irish rain. But as usual, she comes a cropper with her characters. They are all, it seems, sexually confused, tortured by unexplained feelings of guilt, and totally ineffectual and unbelievable as human beings. An improbable seduction scene, which is the high point of the book, has all the furtive comings and goings but none of the hilarity...
...third wife, Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell commands top prices ($25,000-$30,000) for his large oils, is a gourmet who owns a Manhattan townhouse, vacations in Venice and Greece. And even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building in Boston, the bars will hopefully be burst even farther asunder. Whatever...
...Your honest appraisal of the farm mess and Shuman's efforts to untangle it was a breath of fresh air. We farmers who support the Farm Bureau are tired of being blamed for perpetuating government programs we are fighting to end. RICHARD GUTHRIE Dublin...
Empty Coop. Last week the Irish door clanged shut as a new law authorized any of the United Kingdom's 124 police forces to send warrants directly to Dublin, where the commissioner of the Garda Siochana will simply order the wanted man picked up and packed off. In effect, the law restores the pre-1964 system, but with the vital difference that a fugitive claiming Irish citizenship gets a 15-day breathing spell to petition for habeas corpus in an Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same...
...Europe to recapture his position. In Helsinki he raced in a 1,500-meter contest. He lost. In London earlier this month, he tried to win back the mile record, finished seventh, barely scraping in under the four-minute mark. Two days later he was beaten in Dublin by two British milers. In Czechoslovakia he lost two races. In Oslo he was beaten at 800 meters. Two weeks ago in Berlin, Oregon's Jim Grelle, whom Snell had beaten in Los Angeles only last June, won the 1,500 meters. Peter Snell came in third...