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...Protestant counterattack all but overshadowed a guardedly optimistic report, released last week by Ulster's chief constable, showing that terrorist incidents in 1983 had dropped to the lowest point since 1970. Events in Ulster also threatened to set back the efforts of Irish Prime Minister Garret Fitz-Gerald to gain support for a power-sharing scheme that would give Britain and Ireland joint responsibility for the troubled region. On a state visit to Washington last week, the Irish leader urged Americans not to make "common cause for any purpose, however speciously well meaning, with people who advocate or condone...
...consent, all American art had been sunk in earnest provinciality until the 1940s, when abstract expressionism unburdened itself upon the world stage. Nobody believes this today. In fact, the pendulum has gone so far in the other direction that a sea piece by any Boston dauber distantly connectable to Fitz Hugh Lane will command a price that not so long ago would have seemed too much for Turner. No vignette, however treacly, of apple-cheeked infants at the log schoolhouse or hirsute pioneers skinning the raccoon eludes the general resurrection. No grave of a deservedly buried name remains undug...
Hank Moses, we hope that the new year goes great-- Here's to a new calendar and a clean slate. Some shiny new tests for deans Jewett and Fitz-- And to woo the accepted, ten cases of Schlitz. Good luck, bon voyage, to the Botts and the Wackers; Paul Martin gets hardware to ward off the hackers...
...common man and the desire for a common-man presidency, a celebration of the ordinary. The other strain is the American longing for an aristocracy, the buried dynastic, monarchical urge. "Jack is the first Irish Brahmin," said Paul Dever, a former Massachusetts Governor. He had both Harvard and Honey Fitz in him. He was an intellectual who could devastate any woman in the room and devour Melbourne in a speed reader's blitz and curse like the sailor that he also...
...example, after nearly two generations of ethnic subordination by Boston's WASP elites, the political empowerment of Irish-Americans dictated Irish ethnic-bloc voting for Boston's first Irish mayor--Hugh O'Brien in 1884--who was followed by other Irishmen like Patrick Collins and John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. But this Irish breakthrough to political parity did not exclude WASPs from the mayorality of Boston. The reason for this is that the inclusive pluralism of American political culture--a democratic pluralism that encourages inter-ethnic power sharing--militating against political exclusivism and ethnic-oligarchy tendencies. So that in 1917 "Honey...