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...conventionally middle-class as a character in The Importance of Being Earnest, Lenin himself is only moved by the decadent art of Chekhov and Beethoven. Joyce, perhaps, offers another angle on the problem, but one not explored much by Stoppard, who leaves Joyce as a tweedy, limerick-spouting stage-Irishman and stock anti-social artist. Stoppard should have spent less time trying to be clever in the first act and moving in the second, and produced the kind of appealing characters, sharp dialogue and thought-provoking positions on life and art that we know he is capable of from...
Harvard's best shot will come from captain and number one runner Jim Keefe, who turned in an impressive time in the opening meet against Northeastern's premier runner Mike Buckley. Keefe will be facing the likes of Providence's fighting Irishman and last year's New England champ Mike O'Shea as well as another duo of Irish Friars Tracy and Redmond, both juniors...
...Providence team is being touted as the "super team of the future, if not this fall", with the Irishman being backed up by last year's consistent runner John Savoie. But UMass has other ideas about how super the Friars...
Thomas Mackell was a classic of the species. A onetime New York City police detective who shifted easily to politics, the amiable, white-haired Irishman was handily elected district attorney of Queens County in 1966; his rosy future included talk of a run for the U.S. Senate. But last week the former D.A.'s normally twinkling eyes were glassy as he sat in a courtroom and heard himself sentenced to six months in prison...
...decoration of the bar consists basically of pictures of John F. Kennedy while he was at Harvard, and they illustrate perfectly the status of the bar in Cambridge--it takes the patronage of Harvard students, but I suspect the pride in Kennedy is basically pride in a Boston Irishman who became president, and not in a Harvard boy who made good...