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...president is driven by a man named O’Riordan who is a bonafide Irishman. He is a silver-haired, ruddy-cheeked character whose brogue is unmistakable. The scene is like something from a black-and-white movie in the 1930s, with Carey Grant being chauffeured here and there by some effervescent central-casting type. But Neil isn’t Carey, and his job is hardly romantic. I have seen the president’s Oldsmobuick in Harvard Yard waiting for its cargo to finish up in his computer-less office. It is as if the president...
...form of entertainment so suddenly and dynamically stolen the magic of illusion and performance that once belonged to theater. Many a poor 20th century dramatist has spent his career searching for ways to put theater back at the center of humanity's imaginative life. Leave it to an Irishman to figure the whole thing out. If there is one thing which the movies cannot and will not ever be able to capture, it is the sheer enchantment of sitting in a room with another human being and listening to a story. And I'm not talking about the bedtime variety...
...coordinator of the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq resigned in protest against continuing sanctions. "We are in the process of destroying an entire society," warned Irishman Denis Halliday. "It's as simple and terrifying as that.... Five thousand children are dying every month...
...appreciated. During activities that range from beach volleyball and Ping-Pong to yoga, one notices a wide array of physiques--the good, the bad, the ugly and the very ugly. But that's O.K. "The whole resort is geared to living completely in the nude without embarrassment," an Irishman explains to me. "The experience is much more sensual than sexual...
...have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent decades, a more thorough and honest parsing of Kennedy has edited a lot of the hagiology...