Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would most likely be only a pale American imitation of the British show. But all the problems most commonly associated with the show--the slow storylines, the confusing number of characters have their source in a strange sort of non-understanding of what it meant to be rich and Irish in Boston...
...family, for that matter, threatened by the newness of their wealth or the insecurity of their social position. They are all amazingly, boringly secure in a world in which they have no historical place. No Irish, as has often been pointed out during the past few weeks, lived on Beacon Hill in the 1920's. Any Irishman who would dare to move there, even in a piece of fiction, must have some distinct goal in mind, some all-encompassing ambition that would overcome the unspoken but still strict social rules of the time, and of our time...
...television to depict an Irish family in the middle of brahmin-land as having to be biting and aggressive would be an admission by one of America's largest corporations that this is indeed a closed society with a rigid class structure. It is much more politic for CBS to push forward the benign version of the American dream now found in Beacon Hill. It makes for a pretty show, an optimistic show, one that shows off little but the talents of the costume designer...
...servants and Lassiters were at each other's throats, then at least the show would have some spark. But CBS is avoiding all possible controversy, including even the merest hint of racial tension between the black cook and the rest of the Irish staff...
...public-school leadership that has been almost unique in the North for its policies of segregation. The schools are run by a committee whose five members are elected at-large throughout the city; the committee has never had a black member. The school administration has long been an Irish-Catholic bastion, and the entire school system has a well-earned reputation for patronage and petty politics...