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Huzzas & Silence. The signs are everywhere: in the new factories and office buildings, in the Irish-assembled cars (Fords, Austins, Volkswagens) fighting for street space in Dublin, in the new TV antennas crowding the rooftops, in the waning of national self-pity. The signs are provided by the new hotels and carriage-trade castles, by the well-dressed people shopping in supermarkets, by the death of many glorious cliches, by the whole panorama of Ireland's land and leaders (see color pages...
...home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen, he seems more real than the Irish martyrs whose streaked statues fill Dublin's parks with silent declamation. Jack's homecoming epitomized to the Irish the successful distance they themselves have traveled...
There certainly were-by the hundreds of cheering thousands. On the first leg of his European trip President Kennedy's reception swept almost beyond the bounds of reality. From Cologne to County Cork, in Bonn and Berlin, in Dublin and Dunganstown, the emotional experiences built up. Some were framed in laughter, others in tears -and still others in bitter reminders of man's inhumanity to man. There was tea in an Irish barnyard and a mighty buss from a motherly country cousin. There was a hushed moment as two men of different ages and ideas-Kennedy and Adenauer...
...survey, will undoubtedly be mobbed. The reading is fine, but you can do it on your own, and lecturer Kenneth Lynn is no bargain. A possible alternative to Lynn's obsessive neo-Freudianism is English S-163, Denis Donoghue's "Modern British and American Poetry." Prof. Donoghue is from Dublin, and unknown to us, but his reading list is astounding. Check...
Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin...