Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this intersection of the artistic and the social provides also the intersection of the Atma and the south End, a poor but integrated neighborhood of Irish, Puerto Ricans, and blacks which lies next to Roxbury. Samshak realized the kind of problems that would arise before he set up shot near the ghetto. When racial disturbances flared last summer, he still produced the racial-crisis oriented Dutchman and Slave. During the summer he held acting workshops for the youth of the community...
There was the usual run of Irish jokes and Polish jokes and Jewish jokes. But the star of the annual Circus Saints and Sinners show was a tall guy with a lopsided grin who told a few on himself. "In case you have forgotten, I'm the man who wound up a little more than 300,000 heartbeats from the presidency," quipped Senator Edmund Mus-Icie, the guest of honor. However, he pointed out, "There's only one thing lower than a defeated candidate for Vice President-and that's a successful one." Besides, "I have some...
Beheaded Virgin. Geel's enlightened approach to mental care is the product of a 1,300-year-old religious legend. Ac cording to the story, an Irish Christian princess named Dympna fled from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel...
Gruening's years with the Nation in the early twenties came at an exciting time. The magazine under Gruening battled against the power monopolies and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, and for Irish Independence and American recognition of the revolutionary regime in Mexico. Those years are still very much alive in Gruening's memory, and his descriptions of the Nation's crusades of that era come rapid and flowing...
...shattering experts agree that Revere was no better than other Boston silversmiths of his day. A three-piece Revere tea set was sold for $70,000 last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department: "You've no idea what that ride has done for Revere's trade...