Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They lived together for two years ("It was a violent affair," understates Solti) until Hedi and Valerie's husband James Sargant, a theater executive, obtained divorces in 1966. Solti and Valerie married the next year. Hedi now is married to Patrick O'Shea, a landowner in Ireland...
...largest in the U.S., it was as a money raiser for the Democrats that McCloskey was best known. In 1934 he organized the first $100-a-plate dinner, and over the next 30 years he raised millions in campaign contributions. In 1962 he was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President Kennedy...
...American terms, it means that Ibsen would approve Sherwood Anderson's vision of the crabbed, tormented, camouflaged souls of Winesburg, Ohio, rather than the blithely idealized innocents of Thornton Wilder's Grovers Corners. In European terms, James Joyce perhaps came closest to Ibsen when he wrote, "Ireland is the old sow that eats its own farrow...
...equally militant Protestant backers of the Ulster Defense Association, the moderates now represent a comparatively small segment of organized political opinion. But since the British government presented its White Paper (TIME, April 2), setting the ground rules for elections on June 28, two moderate parties, Alliance and Northern Ireland Labour, as well as a growing number of independent candidates, have been cooperating as never before in an all out vote-getting campaign. Their common aim is to pick up enough seats to capture the balance of power in the expanded regional assembly that will take the place...
...political figures, among them Sir Robert Porter, former Minister of Home Affairs, three mayors, five Senators and 70 local councillors. "I came over," explains Senator Millar Cameron, a longtime stalwart of the Protestant-dominated Unionist Party, "partly because I profoundly believe they are doing the right thing for Northern Ireland, partly because it involves the future of my grandchildren and partly because it involves the future of Senator Millar Cameron...