Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggled in the New World. Rooted in that experience is the glorification of the common man and the desire for a common-man presidency, a celebration of the ordinary. The other strain is the American longing for an aristocracy, the buried dynastic, monarchical urge. "Jack is the first Irish Brahmin," said Paul Dever, a former Massachusetts Governor. He had both Harvard and Honey Fitz in him. He was an intellectual who could devastate any woman in the room and devour Melbourne in a speed reader's blitz and curse like the sailor that he also...
...some of the soldiers had fled to the hospital and hurriedly exchanged their uniforms for pajamas. Of the 30 casualties, perhaps half had arrived at the hospital within the first hour of the invasion. "We had been ready for hundreds, but they just didn't come," said an Irish doctor...
...Deadly Force were merely another story of justice delayed and denied, its appeal would be limited by politics and geography. But O'Donnell's thoughtful narrative transcends its arena. The author, 31, grew up in a street-tough Irish Catholic society that had bred legions of police; he had known one of the officers in the case since boyhood. His father, a prominent Boston attorney who took on the widow's case, is himself a former policeman. Thus the book depicts the racial consciousness and social mores of big-city police with fairness, even compassion. That...
...least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
DIED. Pat O'Brien, 83, who played Irish cops and priests, soldiers and football coaches in some 80 films; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. His most memorable performance was as Notre Dame's famed coach in Knute Rockne, in which he exhorts the team to "go out and win one for the Gipper," played by Ronald Reagan...