Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throat), sometime athlete (bicycle sprints), who was dubbed by William Butler Yeats "one of the great lyric poets of our age"; in Manhattan. A onetime senator of the Irish Free State (1922-36), he loved to badger Republicans ("Whenever De Valera contradicts himself, he's right"). Characterizing an Irishman as one "who believes best what he knows to be untrue," Gogarty often colored his tall tales with even taller reminiscences...
...blackfellows" regarded white men as the returned ghosts of their own tribesmen. As a ghost, Graham was welcomed into a tribe, claimed as a husband by a lubra (squaw) and became a hunter of goanna lizard, a grubber for grubs. Author Gibbings' narrative suggests that to a lively Irishman this simple life was simply and literally a bore. Eventually, Graham gave himself up to "the authorities." But after he was back in irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there was a wild white woman living among the savages. Graham was accepted...
...therefore, not a little surprising to discover in Sean O'Faolain a good humored Irishman. He sees the breathing corpses which Joyce portrayed in Dubliners, the scarecrows and fairies with whom Yeats identified, the fools and buffoons whom Shaw cauterized. But this vision of the lover does not move him to the usual nausea or lamentation, but instead to reform...
...Touch of the Poet, the play O'Neill had intended to start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near Boston in 1828, and lives in a dream world of past glories. "As gigantic as Long Day's Journey Into Night," wrote one critic, "but not quite so imposing and important a play." Summed up one first-nighter: "Great theater...
...Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half to go. he dug in. In that brief suggestion of his tremendous power...