Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps. The familiar psychology of "We made it; why can't they?" still blinds various ethnic groups - Poles, Germans, Irish, Italians and lately many Jews - to the more complex handicaps of black Americans. "The Poles had to feed their children, dress them and send them to school," says John Krawiec, editor of Chicago's Dziennik Zwiazkowy. "For centuries, our peasant ancestors were practically slaves too." The hostility of many lower-middle-class whites is compounded by the unspoken realization that, in fact, they have not really "made it" themselves...
...Your account of the Irish elections [June 27] gave disproportionate space to my candidature but neglected to mention the relevant fact that I was elected...
...intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships and was named as a substitute to the British Olympic trap team. Finally persuaded to race at Charterhall, where Clark had made his start several years earlier, Stewart finished third. To fool his mother, he says, "I snuck out to race under the nom de plume...
THIRD--PRINCE OF SAMROCK should treat the Irish well...
This year, two movies about black rebellion have imitated film classics of the Irish revolution. Up Tight (TIME, Jan. 3) was based on The Informer; The Lost Man is a darkened copy of Odd Man Out. The transatlantic temptation is all too understandable, for as a French revolutionist observed, "The poor are the Negroes of Europe." Nonetheless, the Irish fiction grew from a native soul and soil. The Lost Man is a legitimate and anguished cry that suffers in translation...