Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...metamorphose into Gumby, the '50s cartoon character who has somehow aged into a carping Catskills comic; or a late-show pitchman, peddling Galactic Prophylactics and the Funeral in a Cab; or a suburban dandy, with attitudes and accent straight off the Main Line; or even an Irish priest, his brogue as thick as a County Clare mist...
America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
...colonists had brought up their children to speak only their native tongues, we would be a fractured country speaking French, Irish, Dutch, Polish-and this letter would be in German...
...defeat, as in his 14 years as Denver mayor, William McNichols Jr. was the consummate Irish pol. "What do you want me to do, faint?" he genially asked a cadre of pestering reporters as he puffed on his cigar. So "Mayor Bill," 73, bowed out after finishing a stinging third in a field of seven in last Tuesday's election. Slogging through a freak spring blizzard, voters favored former State Legislator Federico Pefia and former District Attorney Dale Tooley, who will meet in a runoff on June...
Columnist Jimmy Breslin of the New York Daily News and the stereotypical New York City policeman have much in common: both are Irish Catholic, beefy, outspoken and known to take a drop. Usually relations between the commentator and the constabulary have been fraternal. Last week, however, Breslin had the boys in blue seeing red. In denouncing the dismissal of a policewoman who posed nude for a skin magazine before becoming an officer, Breslin accused the police department of a double standard. "Wallowing in filthy sex" is common among officers, he charged...