Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scottish and Irish Music--Joy of Movement Center...
...from 45 to 85, but aside from hair color, there isn't much that can be done to erase the lines. Worse, he has an inadequate conception of an American accent; it spoiled his performance in Come Back, Little Sheba on television last month. Here he sounds Irish, Texan, forced and--although this may be the result of the worst job of post-synchronization since 1929--unintelligible. Olivier seems too intense sometimes, and overacts frequently...
Understandably, there was a time when Farrell was a lodestar of the non-Communist left. His Studs Lonigan trilogy is a genre classic, a cluttered memoir of graceless Irish poor whose lyricism and potential are crushed in the struggle to survive. H.L. Mencken called their creator "the best living novelist," and Critic Alfred Kazin noted respectfully that "Farrell was the archetypal novelist of the crisis and its inflictions ... all the rawness and distemper of the thirties seem to live in [his] novels...
Burke, a former member of the Irish Parliament, is in the U.S. for one week to meet with government officials and members of the academic community
Impish, irate, iconoclastic, that mind was robustly playful and evangelically fervent. Irish Actor Donal Donnelly has immersed himself in these characteristics of Shaw's mind, and that is one reason why his portrait of G.B.S., now off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theater, is as persuasive as it is irresistible...