Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four hundred Irishmen trooped into the ballroom of a Manhattan hotel last week for the annual dinner of the Dublin Society of New York. As guest of honor they had a clergyman with them, a learned fellow Dubliner who came to the U.S. just three years ago. Declaimed Toastmaster Terry Long: "This man of God is a native of Dublin, a fluent Gaelic speaker and an authority on Irish folklore. In these days of stress, when we see men turning against their fellow man because of race or color, it is heartening to see among...
Herbert is an extremely serious man who is always making jokes, and his biggest jokes are the most serious. But to take him seriously is to make him laff. To laff, as they tell you in Dublin, is not the same thing as to laugh; Laughter is a nervous reaction. Laffing is an expression of selfcriticism, of anguish...
...Children of the Rainbow is not its lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...
...cross-country race after taking a fifth in the Dartmouth Carnival. Graham Taylor's skiers will find favored Williams and strong Bowdoin and Maine their toughest opponents. Captain John Houser, John Hart, Tim Wise, and Neil Dixon will lead the Crimson. Victorious in last week's Dublin meet, the freshman skiers face the Putney School...
...Yardling ski team, which has just selected Steve Reynolds as captain, took top honors in the downhill, jumping, and cross-country events, and compiled 371.37 points out of a possible 400. Second place Dublin rolled up 354.93, while Exeter and Andover, finishing third and fourth, tallied 344.97 and 283.66 respectively...