Word: hanlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because he put up antiwar demonstrators at his home. The neighbot falsely told an investigator for O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York that the editor was a long-haired, bearded hippie who let his children run wild, had been evicted from three previous residences and was suspected of using drugs. Because the investigating agency made no attempt to double-check, Millstone won a landmark court judgment...
...first goal typified B.C.'s early domination. Eagles' rightwing Lowry, forechecking well, swiped the puck behind the net, rolled it out to Fairclough at the point, who slapped a screened shot. Hanlon flipped in the rebound unmolested...
Intoxicating Malice. O'Hanlon's most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army...
Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
Unlike any number of Ireland watchers, O'Hanlon offers no neat chapter full of progressive suggestions about future pol icy. His attitude is finally a supreme, Celtic compliment to Irish intransi gence: the admission that nothing can be done about...