Word: hibernians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
...plot is another sack of potatoes, however. The heroine (Sarah Miles) is a Hibernian Orphan Annie who in rapid succession sees the young man she loves run away to sea, gets pregnant by a beastly Britisher, suffers a miscarriage in a London gutter, hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien...
...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...
...Pilot, weekly newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, Father Casey has lampooned South Boston's "convivial, congenital, incurable" Irish for boozing it up on St. Patrick's Day, criticized parish priests for being "tyrants," and even suggested that nuns wear modern clothes -all to howls of Hibernian protest...