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...assumption of the summit: nothing should occur to inconvenience a leader seeking reelection. That axiom certainly guided Reagan's image makers during his entire European visit. Wherever he went, Reagan treated audiences to large doses of his fabled charm. He met his first challenge at University College in Galway, Ireland, a self-designated nuclear-free zone. While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile away. Unperturbed, Reagan displayed his own gift...
...Minister Moshe Arens to the U.S. last week produced genuine accommodation between Washington and its major allies. The possibility of some arrangement with an important adversary arose too, as Secretary of State George Shultz took off with no advance fanfare on a journey to Nicaragua, then proceeded on to Galway to brief the President (see WORLD...
...haunts, Trevor says there is "an instinct for places" and "the genius of the artist who is capable of using the parochial to illuminate the human condition." In excerpts from his poems we see the ruined abbey of Corcomroe in County Clare and, later, the forbidding Norman tower in Galway: "An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower" which Yeats made his summer house. And in "Reveries over Childhood and Youth." Yeats reminisces about Lissadell House, the home of a favourite Anglo-Irish family...
...that Williamson distinguishes between the deliberate use of anti-lyricism as a technique and the recurrent inattention to poetic technique that characterizes the poets of bad surrealism. Clumsy diction can illustrate the disintegration of consciousness and some poets even use language as a weapon against itself, as James Wright, Galway Kinnell, and Robert Bly do at times. And Williamson rightly praises Plath for the extraordinary lyricism of her poetry. The chapter on the attempt by some poets to destroy language leaves one question unanswered: if the poets under consideration find language such an inadequate tool, why don't they stop...
...revenues, which is expected to be between 8% and 16%, would wipe out a significant chunk of Ireland's $1.1 billion budget deficit. Until recently, Ireland's exploration for oil has concentrated on Porcupine Basin, a storm-whipped area of the Atlantic 130 miles west of Galway Bay. The poor drilling conditions and evidence of only small deposits in that basin prompted a shift of attention to the shallower, calmer Celtic Sea. The discovery of a field there entails one other bit of Irish luck. The well lies not far offshore from a refinery that is currently used...