Word: gaelic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCARPERER, by Brendan Behan. To "scarper" in Gaelic is to escape, and Behan runs off with some Dublin weirdos glorifying their past and dreaming their future. This short novel is vintage Behan...
...leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible explanation: he closely resembles a richer client of the Scarperer -a French desperado who has commissioned this elaborate plan to get himself off the Suretes most-wanted list...
...Johnson roller coaster kept swooping down and up-from the forced hilarity of political show biz to the solemnity of tributes to two of the world's lost leaders, from the gaiety of a Gaelic reception to the sentiment of a high school commencement in the old home town...
ROBERT HENRI-Chapellier, 954 Madison Ave. at 75th. Henri was best as a portraitist: with two circlets of emerald green he puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April...
Television, which now lights up more than 200,000 screens, is a perennial as sault on Gaelic puritanism. Ireland's own station competes with programs beamed from Britain that seem incredibly risque to Irish viewers; the BBC's uninhibited coverage of Christine Keeler's exploits has even jogged the stodgy, self-censoring Irish press into giving readers all the details. Many Irishmen, increasingly resentful of censorship, have taken to sampling censored books, films or plays by taking the 90-minute flight to London - where far more horrendous temptations abound...