Word: hoolihan
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...police," begins Martin Amis' novel Night Train (Harmony; 175 pages; $20). "I am a police and my name is Detective Mike Hoolihan. And I am a woman, also." And with that satisfying jolt, we're off, as Amis once again bombards, delights, excites and irritates the reader with his hard-edged writing and warped spirit. Paying homage to the American tough-guy novelists of yore--Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler--Night Train pushes the boundaries of noir almost to the edge of darkness. The experiment does not always work, but this little book never gets boring...
...Have the HUPD walk beats through the bathroom. I, for one, would feel safer in the shower when Officer Hoolihan strolled through, whistling and flipping his nightstick...
...MICHAEL HOOLIHAN Washington
...Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...
...spreading Harvard influence through the West without seeming unpleasantly officious. The play reviews are decidedly entertaining, but unequal, and in each case the reviewer has curiously reflected the actual language of the performance he witnessed. Thus the language of the reviews of "The Blue Bird" and of "Kathleen Ni Hoolihan" approaches critical dignity, while the dialect of the reviews of the musical comedies suggests the influence of comic opera lyrics. Mr. McMahon's letter on "The Playboy" capably presents one side of the discussion that has risen over that drama...