Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finds the bulk of its votes, and it's here that Abt and others like her must do well to win seats on the council. For a long time, this area was the home of "good government" sentiment. The Brattle St. folk, distressed at the fashion which the Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence of the Vietnam era, that changed. The swing leftward on national...
...Danann, Eamonn Curran, Dolores Keane and John Faulkner--Irish music; Sanders Theater...
...quite different developments took place last week that could ease both historic and recent tensions in Northern Ireland. The more dramatic came from Maze Prison, where at week's end Irish Republican militants announced that they were giving up their seven-month campaign of fasting that has left ten dead since it began last March. In Dublin, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald launched a bold initiative to change the constitution of the Irish Republic in ways that would make unification of the divided island more conceivable...
...Berlin, critics and scholars have been trying to make Carlo Reinhart into Berger's alter ego. Retorts the author: "The only thing my character and I share is my Army serial number and a few facts of early life." Like Reinhart, Berger is Ohio-born, his German-French-Irish father was a business manager of the Cincinnati school system. The 105-lb. sophomore played 15 seconds of varsity football for Lockland High when "we were leading about 40-0." And like Reinhart, Berger served in the Army Medical Corps during the Berlin occupation. The aspiring novelist left his Columbia...
...field University. Harris--last year's Crimson co-captain with TOM MAN-NIX--signed on as his assistant, and the two are now happily installed in Connecticut. "We're plugging along down here," Harris said, "just plugging along." ....In other basketball news, the Crimsons are slated to face the Irish National Team November 14 at the IAB. Last year in international competition, the hoopsters dumped the Portuguese. The team starts regular practice October 22, although most members of the team have been playing afternoons...