Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are three things which are real," Indian-Irish Author Aubrey Menen once wrote, "God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...
Gabriel's Gab. As is proper for the hero of his own story, Behan went to his hard school in obedience to family tradition; like his father before him, he was a member of the Irish Republican Army. At 16, in 1939, he traveled to England with the intention of blowing up the battleship King George V. After less than a week and nothing blown up, British po; lice caught Brendan with the explosive goods on him in a Liverpool slum tenement. At Borstal, one of the "screws" (warders) showed a keen sense of British affection for unsuccessful revolutionaries...
Majority's skillful, amiable performers almost camouflage its sociological pretensions. What Majority wants to be is an adult East-meets-Western. What it is is a middle-aged Abie's Irish Rose, and it may turn out to be almost as successful...
...Irish Players, who have brought The Playboy to Boston after a successful run off-Broadway in New York, are not a first-rate group, and the far limits of the play's potential would be beyond them under the best of circumstances. But they sport adequate brogues, they have a good Pegeen in Miss Carroll, and they do not spoil the permanent freshness of Synge's play...
Died. Una O'Connor, 78, Abbey-trained Irish actress who became one of the most familiar slaveys of stage and screen (Cavalcade, Witness for the Prosecution); in Manhattan...