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...city charter to make sure taxpayers could not be charged for the Games. So the I.O.C. would just have to waive its fundamental rule of awarding the franchise to a city and instead hand it over to a board of businessmen. Past I.O.C. President Lord Killanin, a sparky Irishman, sputtered in reply, "You may be the only horse hi the race, but you still have to cross the finish line." Once the private organizing committee and the U.S.O.C. jointly contracted to guarantee zero financial liability for the city, the face-saving technicality was agreed to all around...
...down to sleep and dream. This week, for the first time, a writer had attempted to make articulate this wordless world of sleep. The writer is James Joyce; the book, Finnegans Wake-final title of his long-heralded Work in Progress. In his 57 years this erudite and fanciful Irishman, from homes in exile all over Europe, has written two books that have influenced the work of his contemporaries more than any others of his time: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the best of innumerable novels picturing an artist's struggle with his environment; Ulysses...
...erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him. No. 1 U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Sullivan fathered the skyscraper...
...demonstrates that the author still has an infallible ear for the speech of the clerics who educated him back in Belfast. The good father in Cold Heaven serves to redeem Moore's cast of otherwise lackluster characters. His name is Monsignor Cassidy. Bless him, he is the only Irishman...
David McConnell, a young Irishman who had just earned an M.A. degree in geology from Oklahoma State, had tried a desperate stratagem after failing to make the cut. He and a friend flew via People from Newark to Atlantic City and back in the morning, for $23 each way. This put them on a priority list of People's incoming passengers. But, said McConnell, so many other line squatters had done the same thing that priority might not mean much. "You get rather paranoid," he said. The major gripe is that the airline does not carry over stand...