Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fighting Irish, yesterday's contest was the key one in a five-game eastern swing--and through much of the first half, the visitors kept Harvard...
After the Fighting Irish scored the initial goal in the third quarter, Harvard's defense clamped down. For 11 minutes, the aquadudes shut out the visitors--while running up a string of five tallies of their...
Reagan came into office skeptical of arms control, and he has presided over the most serious and protracted breakdown in the Geneva talks. Yet, whether by Irish luck or intuitive statesmanship, he is currently in a position to get a far better deal out of the Soviets than any of his predecessors...
Nicknamers also seem to have a streak of anthropological stereotyping in them. Lots of nicknames are ethnic groups that one supposes, are supposed to be especially uncouth: the Fighting Irish (Notre Dame), the Fighting Scots (Wooster), the Vandals (Idaho), the Tartars (Wayne State) the Wasps (Emory & Henry) and, of course, the Indians, an increasingly unpopular nickname...
These stories are more than ten years old, but in Lukas' hands they still have the power to move. No reader, no matter what his political or social views, can fail to be affected by the Irish Catholic family, declining into an acrimony that leaves all of its members diminished; by the black family, breaking up in despair; or by the white liberals, who in the end give up on the South End, retreating to a Victorian house in the suburbs...