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Schrag's monolithic reading runs its natural course to self-parody. But the sad thing is that in overestimating the WASP-both as hero and as villain -he underestimates everybody else. One would never guess that the most talented playwright in American history was a black Irishman named Eugene O'Neill, or that the wisest philosopher was a half-Spaniard, George Santayana. One would never suspect that America's only native art, jazz, was the invention of Americans who were neither Anglo-Saxon nor white...
...hero to his valet, per-haps no woman can be a heroine to her secretary. That, at least, might be one lesson to be derived from this colorful, bitchy, bizarre biography of the late Helena Rubinstein, written by the rather unctuous Irishman who served as her factotum for nearly 14 years...
...inner conflict of the American Church has curiously been played out in the Berrigans' own lives. Sons of a working-class Irishman whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive...
...Both I.R.A. factions denied responsibility -the regulars who want a political revolution and the breakaway Provisionals who openly advocate guerrilla warfare until the six counties that make up Ulster are united with the Irish Republic to the south. The I.R.A., however, has pledged "two soldiers for every one Irishman killed." I.R.A. Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding warned recently: "Things are going to get worse. British soldiers are going to get killed...
...with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer of the day. Van Morrison, an Irishman late of Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings are two virescent newcomers. One is Carole King, a soul blues singer who plays piano on James' records and has written a song for his new album. The other is English Folk...