Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final speaker of the European group was Seamus O'Neill, professor at Dublin University, Ireland, who argued that modern poetry in Ireland has flourished even since the death of W.B. Yeats...
...since the visit of Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, had a foreign visitor so quickly found a role in domestic politics. Some Deep South Democrats boycotted his speeches to Congress. Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, crowded for reelection, made much of him when at week's end Nkrumah began his tour of the U.S. in Harlem. For his part, Nkrumah, laughing with a strong man's sympathy, hoped that he had given American Negroes a cause for pride by personifying the new Africa's promise of dignity in world affairs...
...track unknown, wiry (5 ft. 5½ in., 124 Ibs.) Australian Bert Thomas, 23, kept a scorching pace for the three-mile run at Dublin's Santry cinder track, streaked to the finish with a new world record (13 min. 10.8 sec.), bettering Sandor Iharos' 1955 record...
...best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom and the wine-dark sea into Dublin, the structure came from the past but the sense of it was all in the present-which is the essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than...
...French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin, where James Joyce's hero, mindful of Lady Hamilton, referred to him as "the onehandled adulterer...