Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...
...Pampas Moon (1935). At 18 she married Edward Judson, a sometime auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real appeal was not Latin but all-American. After lightening her hair, he introduced her to Harry Cohn, the shrewd, tyrannical head of Columbia Pictures, who substituted her Irish mother's surname, with a slight variation, and inserted young Hayworth into her first important picture, Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings...
...wavered from his inner call. "I always wanted to be a priest, ever since I ever wanted to be anything," he says. "Faith keeps him going strong," confirms Georgetown's Healy. "He says Mass like the day he was ordained. That's his real greatness. He's what the Irish call a darlin' man." And, by every appearance, a deeply fulfilled...
...Irish Republican Army commandos figured on a turkey shoot. What they got was a bloody shoot-out. Late last week a bulldozer carrying a bomb rammed the gates of a police station in the village of Loughgall, 30 miles from Belfast. Just before the device exploded, wrecking the building, masked terrorists leaped from a blue van and raked the post with gunfire. But the station was empty; tipped off in advance, the police had cleared out. Suddenly a team of the British army's crack Special Air Service sprang from hiding and opened fire...
Every immigrant has a dream: to be free, unafraid, able to earn a decent living. Those are the benefits that America seems to offer to newcomers to these shores. But the reality is rarely so sunny. For millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Chinese, Irish and others who enter surreptitiously, America can be as much a prison as a refuge. Most illegal immigrants live along the margins of society, working cheaply, anonymously and without complaint so as to avoid detection by authorities. Although they have become part of the texture of American life, they have remained anxious fugitives, separate and unequal...