Word: killanin
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...president. After the ballots were counted and burned, Irish whisky was delivered to the conference room. The choice of drink was appropriate. Some hours later it was announced that the successor to Avery Brundage, for 20 years the autocratic arbiter of international amateur sport, was Michael Morris, Baron Killanin, of Dublin...
...elevation of Lord Killanin came as no surprise. The only other contender for the post was Count Jean de Beaumont of France, who to many of the committee members seemed too much like the outgoing president. "We felt," one member confided after the lopsided (but unannounced) vote, "that 20 years of Brundage had been ample...
...Lord Killanin, an art patron and onetime Fleet Street reporter, suggested that Thoor Ballylee, the Galway castle where Yeats lived for twelve years, should be turned into a Yeats museum. Valentin Iremonger, one of Ireland's leading younger poets, calbd this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars...
...last word will probably lie with Ireland's Academy of Letters and the U.S.'s Mr. Kelly, who is known to favor a monument in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. But, snapped Lord Killanin, "statues have a habit of disappearing or being decapitated in Ireland...