Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assassination by political terrorists is a reprehensible, morally unjustifiable act. But it is perhaps because of centuries of barbarous oppression and injustice under British rule that some Irish have yet to learn the laws of civilized warfare...
...time, with an eye toward the glaring weaknesses in the Crimson lineup, I regarded Restic's comment as the optimism of a coach desperate for a strength to highlight. After all, spirit? The glee club has spirit; your fourth-grade gym teacher had spirit; an Irish Setter puppy has spirit. But a football team has bulk, speed, agility, experience...
...Boston, however, the militancy of the late William Henry Cardinal O'Connell and the rising affluence of the Irish Catholic middle class between the world wars ensured that the Catholic presence was here to stay. The Cardinal, among others, even began to worry that success would do to the faithful Catholics what it had done to the third generation of Puritans: lead to diminished zeal and cultural identity...
...King advocates the progressive policies that Boston needs in the 1980s. King supports public housing cooperatives, opposes vacancy decontrol and has a realistic and humane grasp of the city's crime and health problems. King is not garden variety Boston mayoral candidate; he is not white, he is not Irish and he does not descend from an unbroken line of Boston pols. If Boston voters are looking for a creative, forward-looking mayor, King is a logical choice...
...nothing is unrevivable-as an exhibition of 54 paintings from 17th century Venice which opened two weeks ago at London's National Gallery abundantly shows. Organized by Art Historian Homan Potterton, and composed of paintings from British and Irish collections, it is the first show ever given to this subject in England. It makes a distinct contribution to art scholarship&-and, in an alternately dry and overripe way, provides real visual pleasure as well...