Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigator for the Suffolk County, Mass., district attorney's office, Crimmins, 63, is a taciturn South Boston Irishman who has been driving cars for Ted Kennedy since his 1962 senatorial campaign. Apart from his chauffeur's role, Crimmins' principal contribution has been to relay the advice of some "Southie" voters: "Tell the kid to stop singing Sweet Adeline. He sings off key." Kennedy took the advice...
...similarly includes the audience in her barrage of insults and confidences. Her bitter ballad near the end of the second act, where she is backed by the male members of the cast, is simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant, and I'm sure that if I were more of an Irishman it would have brought me pretty close to tears...
...saves his earnings to bet the horses. He spends all his spare hours on handicapping systems or figuring ways to beat the odds. Friends help. Nick Carter, a paint labeler, explains to him: "Never bet a slow starter from an inside post position in a sprint." Mulligan, a caricature Irishman who is handicap expert for the International News Service, instructs him in the folly of following "expert" advice-by not putting money down on his own published selections. "Do you think anybody who knows what he's doin' would give you good information for a nickel...
...have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions: a folk tale of giants and dwarfs and transformations, and a good ironic belt at English politics. The stage Irishman, or rollicking boyo, which developed later, is really a put-on that lost...
...would want to live in this rotten country?" the Irish still ask you. But the lip quivers a trifle (get an Irishman to actually laugh and he concedes a point to you). They are not leaving the way they were; or else they're leaving and coming back, trained and with a stake. To keep the place lively, the government has announced some eyecatching tax breaks for writers and artists. After all, they say to the English, "our ancestors were great scholars while yours were still running around in blue paint." Perhaps the next dream of the ahistorical Irish...