Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holtz. The name doesn't resonate like Knute Rockne or George Gipp, men around whom the legend of Notre Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the Fighting Irish. Nor does it seem of sufficient luster to be mentioned in the same sentence with Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, coaches who won multiple national championships and were subsequently canonized by fanatic subway alumni. Holtz would be the first to agree with all this. "All I ever wanted...
This year Notre Dame is 11-0 after last Saturday's 34-23 defeat of Penn State, and two wins away from a second consecutive national title. The Irish could conceivably stumble this weekend against Miami or on New Year's night against undefeated Big Eight champion Colorado. But the 23 consecutive victories Holtz has directed add up to an achievement unmatched by any of his more illustrious predecessors...
...Notre Dame he would be part of a national-championship team. "I looked deep into his eyes, and I knew he was telling the truth," says Lyght. Holtz also persuaded quarterback Tony Rice, tailback Ricky Watters and flanker Raghib ("Rocket") Ismail, players who have been crucial to the Irish success, to enroll at Notre Dame. Not that Notre Dame, with its mystique and a virtual farm team of Catholic high schools providing talent, needs additional help on the recruiting front. Says Beano Cook, the acerbic college football analyst for the ESPN television network: "It's easy to win at Notre...
...open schism by trying to deprive Wilder of his moment on the mountaintop. There was no chance of a racially divisive primary, since Virginia Democrats, unlike those in other Southern states, nominate by convention. In a sense, Wilder was the beneficiary of old- fashioned back-room politics, just as Irish, Italian and Jewish candidates were in the urban North decades ago. With the aid of the Robb and Baliles organization, plus his own ties to Richmond business interests, Wilder was able to raise $7.2 million, avoiding the traditional fate of ill-funded black candidates...
...light -- light all around." Georgia O'Keeffe spent her life trying to recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted...