Word: keown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost rather than gained visibility in the past year. It no longer mounts massive demonstrations on Ulster streets, and Corrigan and Williams rarely take their courageous, much-publicized peace strolls through the city's tense confrontation zones. Some early supporters have defected after disputes with Ciaran Mc-Keown, an ex-journalist who has become the chief ideologue of the movement. Mc-Keown has switched the emphasis from protest marches toward projects of "community democracy" that he hopes will start to heal the hatreds between Northern Ireland's 1 million Protestants and its 500,000 Catholics...
...tryst even has its own whereto literature. A newly published (by Collier/Macmillan) Lovers' Guide to America lists inns, hotels and resorts that both welcome and appeal to couples. Scottish-born Travel Writer Ian Keown, 36, visited some 275 spots across the " country, and found 137 that were sufficiently charming and nonchalant to be awarded anywhere from one cupid (good enough for "a one-night stand") to four cupids (where a couple could live "happily ever after"). Among Lovers 'listings...
...only 25 states made the Lovers' list; California led them all with 27 recommendations, including five four-cupid inns and hotels. The guide finds the Midwest to be a romantic wasteland, however, and Keown has special scorn for Iowa and Ohio. The only place to tryst in these states, he says, is aboard an Amtrak sleeping car, "watching the scenery, such as it is, roll...