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...corner from his childhood home, a two-family frame house in blue-collar North Cambridge. He huffed that he would never call a President a demagogue, adding, "I assume in the future he will have the same respect for the speakership." Maybe so. Reagan called his fellow fighting Irishman the next day and smoothed things over, one poor boy to another...
...assumes. For by then the reader is being shuttled back and forth into a sort of James Bond thriller by an Irishman named Silas Flannery. What is the explanation for this terminal case of non sequitur? Bungling in the bindery? Or should blame-and credit-be assigned to the Organization for the Electronic Production of Homogenized Literary Works, operating out of New York to reduce all fiction to One Novel? Or is the erratic anthology the fault of an odd chap named Ermes Marana, who dashes about the world scribbling novels in native languages and native styles, then dashes home...
...which the joke is aimed also are the targets of actual (not merely verbal) forms of discrimination, then it becomes offensive and even painful. If you still do not understand this, I suggest that you ask a woman or a Black or a Pole or a South Boston Irishman to explain...
...leave the show. His doctors diagnosed his illness as a degeneration of the cervical spine, and said the pain was "like the exposed nerve in a tooth multiplied by ten." As he had done in 1967, when the film version of Camelot was made, Burton relinquished his throne to Irishman Richard Harris. Last week Burton successfully underwent an operation to halt his spinal degeneration, and Harris, 50, began a reign scheduled to last through the lusty month of May and into June...
DIED. John W. McCormack, 88, "the fighting Irishman of South Boston" who rose to become Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives and was first in line to the presidency after John F. Kennedy's death; in Dedham, Mass. His 42-year congressional career was capped by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights...