Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McGuane III that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State, McGuane...
...here by midnight." "We like to win," says the school's current president, the Rev. Edward A. ("Monk") Malloy, who as a Notre Dame undergraduate was a varsity basketball player. As a measure of exactly how much Notre Dame likes to win, Malloy describes the 17-9 season the Irish basketball team had during his senior year in the following way: "It wasn't what you would call successful...
...call." Sister Mary Roberts, the principal at St. Al's, broadcast Notre Dame's victory march over the loudspeaker each afternoon as school adjourned, perhaps because she belonged to the Order of Notre Dame. No wonder Holtz subsequently told his family that he would some day coach the Fighting Irish...
...accepting a job at the University of South Carolina, only to watch helplessly as the position was temporarily eliminated, that Holtz began to lay out the rest of his life with some purpose. He made a list of 107 things he wished to accomplish, naturally including leading the Fighting Irish and being chosen coach of the year (others on the list: having an audience with the Pope, landing on an aircraft carrier, scoring a hole in one). To date, he has achieved...
...concentration and intensity, and hence lose in an upset. Before the Pitt game, he assured reporters that Pitt was only slightly less dangerous than Rommel's Panzers. Yet at practice he was telling his players that Pitt was more like the army of Grenada and that he expected the Irish to beat the bejabbers out of them. When this inconsistency is raised, Holtz is only momentarily at a loss. "We just point out the problems to the public and the press," he says. "We tell the players the problems and the solutions...