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...treaty is opposed by a coalition of northeastern liberal Democrats, including Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The Democrats, many with large Irish-American constituencies, maintain that the I.R.A. is waging a legitimate struggle for political freedom. Helms cares little for the I.R.A., but worries that the new treaty would set a precedent, allowing Communist governments to demand the extradition of anti- communist guerrillas...
...forthcoming we'll see new and viable behavior by Black alumni-not Black alumni weekends but large financial gifts by wealthy and not-so-wealthy Black alumni to endow professorships in African Studies or American Studies, like Armenian-American alumni endow in Armenian studies and for study of genocide in modern states, or Jewish American alumni endow in Middle Eastern Studies, or Irish-American alumni in Celtic Studies. It takes more rigorous reflection on these matters than Spencer Jourdain offered if we are to stimulate more cosmopolitan and mature behavior by Black Harvard alumni than that represented in the Black...
...Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling mat. One can find vagrant felicities in these films: a snap to the style of Tuff Turf; the bang-on casting of young actors with unassimilated Irish-American faces in Heaven Help Us; and in Vision Quest some nice quirks of dialogue and a lovely performance by Matthew Modine that makes the whole hokey business the tiniest bit affecting. But even to search for these privileged moments is to lower one's expectations to ankle level...
Last week a new generation of Kennedys trudged into that complexity. The long lens caught their photogenic Irish-American faces, eyes all downcast at the same angle of mourning, some shirtsleeves rolled up, a shirttail out the way that Bobby's sometimes was. The cousins walked up Hickory Hill bearing one of their own, David Anthony Kennedy, Robert and Ethel's fourth child, their third son. Except for infant deaths years ago, David, at 28, was the first of the new generation...
...WASP elites, the political empowerment of Irish-Americans dictated Irish ethnic-bloc voting for Boston's first Irish mayor--Hugh O'Brien in 1884--who was followed by other Irishmen like Patrick Collins and John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. But this Irish breakthrough to political parity did not exclude WASPs from the mayorality of Boston. The reason for this is that the inclusive pluralism of American political culture--a democratic pluralism that encourages inter-ethnic power sharing--militating against political exclusivism and ethnic-oligarchy tendencies. So that in 1917 "Honey Fitz" (grandfather of the fist Irish-American president...