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...English, we are not. At any rate, TIME'S Atlantic Edition has more readers in Ireland per capita than anywhere else in Europe. Last week's cover story on Prime Minister Lemass quickly replaced Kennedy's visit as a subject of Irish conversation. News dealers in Dublin and Cork had to put copies under the counter for their regulars, though thousands of extra copies were rushed over from London. It was a great day for the Irish-so much so that when the leader of the parliamentary opposition, whose name was unfortunately not mentioned in the story...
...would not be Ireland if there were no contention, and disputed judgments. So we rather like the measured praise of the Dublin Evening Herald: "It must be admitted that, except for a rather small dose of shamrockery, which foreign writers on Ireland like to disport themselves with, this is a comparatively objective article-often coming refreshingly close to sensitiveness...
...Portland, Ore. Under construction are two new Hiltons in Paris, one at Montreal airport, and others in Brussels, Honolulu, Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Rabat, Mayagüez, Tunis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Curaçao, Cyprus, Addis Ababa, Dublin, Manila, Caracas, Barbados, St. Paul and Kuwait. Fortnight ago, Hilton added the Dorado Riviera in Puerto Rico to his empire, and last week he took over the Arawak in Jamaica...
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...
...gentleness of Dublin may be part of the reason why Professor Donoghue finds so much meaning in ordinary human experience and resents the "super sophistication and concern for extreme" to be found in some of the works of T.S. Eliot and other modernists. These poets assume a heretical, "non-Christian" attitude and imply that the common man and ordinary human experience are meaningless. Donoghue feels that man should be respected for what he is. "There is no need to canonize an ordinary person as this "gives short shrift to the value of human life...