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...England, the modernist movement found a voice in Irish-born Jesuit George Tyrrell. A convert from Protestantism, Tyrrell proposed that the church restate its beliefs in the light of discoveries made by science and philosophy-a view that Rome found no more palatable than the novelties of Loisy. Expelled from the Jesuits, Tyrrell was excommunicated in 1907; he refused to confess his errors, died two years later. Yet even Pius X was moved by Tyrrell's death. "Unlike most arch-heretics, he died a good Christian," the Pontiff was said to have told a friend...
...Peter Grace Jr., 53, is a grandson of the Irish-born chandler and trader who, in 1854, founded W. R. Grace & Co., first as a merchant shipper, later as a holder of huge Latin American in terests. Mrs. Lorraine Mulberger, 52, is a granddaughter of the German-born brewmaster who, in 1855, cooked up Miller High Life, one of the beers that have made Milwaukee famous. Last week Grace and Mrs. Mulberger agreed on a big business deal: for $36 million, Grace bought the 53% controlling in terest owned by Mrs. Mulberger and members of her immediate family...
Post Office Meeting. Sam Yorty is one of the millions who came to California to seek opportunity and room to roam. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., in 1909, the son of a poor farmer and an Irish-born mother, arrived in Los Angeles after high school with $80 in his pocket. He enrolled in Southwestern University Law School, working first as a part-time clothing salesman, next as a movie projectionist, but found that his real flair was for speechifying: "I would rather give a speech than
...most part, haiku in English have been either translations of old Japanese poems or originals that closely imitated Oriental terms and themes. Convinced that the form had other possibilities, Mrs. Maeve O'Reilly Finley, a bouncy, Irish-born fourth-grade teacher in the innovation-minded public schools of Newton, Mass., began writing her own versions of haiku for her students in 1962. Her Haiku for You, a thin volume of 101 haiku for children, was published this summer...
From the time she first set up shop as a novelist eleven years ago, Irish-born Iris Murdoch was accorded a respectful acclaim. Because she was then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably...