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...lesser-known works of his first year was supplying Indians with American books, obtained with a Ford Foundation grant. The Last Hurrah pleased Nehru but "the book that influential Indians seem to want most" is Galbraith's own The Affluent Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith, Kennan, Reischauer Get Picture on 'Time' Magazine Cover | 1/10/1962 | See Source »

...Hurrah for Mary Bunting! What a joy to find an educated woman who advocates no such radical goals as women in politics or big business careers but motherhood with some objective beyond diapers and rectal thermometers. Where do young mothers with fresh ideas and a desire to do something challenging go to register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1961 | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Brien kitchen became a political headquarters, and Democratic leaders from Boston made their way there-notably, flamboyant James Michael Curley, archetype of The Last Hurrah breed, and smooth-tongued David Ignatius Walsh, first Irishman ever elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Walsh was some times a trial: whenever he paid a call, he insisted on quizzing Larry on his American history and catechism. But Curley was another, headier cup of tea: as a bug-eyed boy, Larry listened spellbound as his father and Curley conspired like Sinn Feiners about the ways to break the hated Yankee Republican grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Man on the Hill | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since The Last Hurrah, Novelist O'Connor signs countless lOUs on his people and plot, and redeems disappointingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something About the Irish | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...James Michael Curley) who ran away with the earlier novel. But Charlie dwindles into a gabby stage Irishman. Father Kennedy promises to be one of Graham Greene's degraded but tormented priests. Instead, his anguish is smothered in resignation, and his vocation is feeble. Compared with The Last Hurrah, this novel is a kind of lost begorra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something About the Irish | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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