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...future Scotsman" is a fairly fantastic bucko named Jack, who believed himself to be an Irishman until he was 20 and played the part to the Abbey Theater hilt. Though he grew to only 60⅜ inches and had to dye his hair red, Jack strutted through life indulging in "imitation Irish ultimating" (like his 6 ft. 3 in. father), gloriously using the world as his straight man. "An Irishman," Jack concludes, looking back to lost innocence, "can get by with things another...
When he learns his life has been no more real than a Paddy joke-that he is Scottish on both sides-the news affects Jack like expulsion from Eden. What is a Scotsman? Jack undergoes a case of nine-year shock trying to answer. First he becomes a non-Irishman-a "neutral man," practically evaporating in the arms of his girl Elizabeth, a perfect colleen stereotype with "about seventy-six brothers and sisters, and a drunken no-good father...
...Japanese mean that the son of a Hong Kong millionaire or an immigrant Japanese physicist should have the benefit of quota employment today? "Spanish-surnamed Americans" complete the list of minorities affected by governmental affirmative action plans. But they include Sephardic Jews, Spaniards, Cubans, Colombians--perhaps an occasional Irishman bearing a Spanish name. Do they all deserve official protection through quotas too? And what of the groups that have never been subject to official and governmental discrimination but who do poorly under our present system--Poles, Italians, and others? Will they not raise claims too under quota admissions or hiring...
Conditioned by 37 years of legislative experience, O'Neill is beginning to provide, along with Speaker Carl Albert, the dynamic and effective leadership House Democrats have lacked in recent years. The Nixon Administration, previously unworried by House rhetoric, faces a 6 ft., 2 in. Irishman who unhesitatingly warns his collegues: "I believe that Congress has its own mandate from those people most affected by the President's budget. We will not allow President Nixon to eliminate these essential programs in the areas of adequate housing for middle America, the education of our youth, the health care of our elderly...
...Irishman's strongest trait, cultivated in the Massachusetts legislature, is the tricky ability to consistently communicate with all members of the House. Thomas O'Neill III, a freshman representative on Beacon Hill, explained his father's lasting techniques: "Dad can't stand being disliked. He's so friendly that animosity is a foreign word to him. If there's a problem between another member and him, Dad simply calls him or her up and clears up the difficulty--no hard feelings remain. He talks friend-to-friend and communicates best with members in the committee room...