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Word: irishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greek tragedies Euripides was there, and so was Irish novelist James Joyce. But when the night was done, it was Peter Weiss's book. The Investigation, as orally interpreted by Justin Richardson '85 that captured the Boylston Prize, Harvard's oldest award...

Author: By Betsy Silver, | Title: Sophomore Takes First In Boylston Prize Contest | 4/23/1983 | See Source »

...office, Ronald Reagan also has turned charm into power. Critics would contend it is the only thing sustaining his presidency. They may be right. Charm is a cousin once removed to style, which was one of John Kennedy's renowned qualities. Both go deeper than clothes and Irish stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Power of Charm | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...sports cap the size of a manhole cover jammed down on his great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy. Sure and begorra, it could only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Then there's the voices. They didn't use Australian actors-not many lurking in L.A., I suppose, and you can't have Peter Allen chewing the ram-stag mutton and pretending to be a jackaroo. So they all talk either Ma Maison Irish or Rodeo Drive pommy. Not a trace of Strine from magpie to mopoke until Bryan Brown (who plays Luke, the shearer Meggie marries when she can't get her priest) looms up on the horizon, picking the damper crumbs from his Great Whites with a stringybark sapling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Gum-Nut Tragedy All the Way | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...Yonto, the former Notre Dame defensive coordinator and the man who recruited Joe for the Fighting Irish, thinks that the elder Restic's influence was a major plus in Joe Jr.'s training...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: JoeRestic Jr. | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

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