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Like most Irish-American families, the Kinsellas are marked by an incredibly strong sense of family loyalty. They'll argue and fight for ages with each other, but the world and even close friends never even sense disagreement since the arguing is all in the family. The two generations of Kinsellas who are in this novel are all native Americans, but significantly, they seem to be happiest when in Ireland. A large part of Family is set in Ireland, if only to emphasize the dominance of the Irish concept of family over Jimmy Kinsella and his three young sons, James...
...Kinsellas a bunch of greenhorns. Monied and well-established, Jimmy Kinsella expects each of his sons to fulfill the American dream and be ambitious and successful...
...when founding Boston, "We shall be as a city upon a hill," are plastered all over public buildings) met in the minds of some of the Boston Irish. It was this type of thinking, plus the love of an uproarious battle that prompted affluent, well-educated families like the Kinsellas to offer one of their own as a candidate for public office. Phil Kinsella, the brother of the Chosen One, Charles, was once asked why his brother was running for mayor...
...that O'Connor has explored so often before. On his trip, however, he has no clear idea where he wants to go, except that his :amily should resemble the Kennedy clan only in the most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion and then sits by, fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues: political realism v. political idealism. O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles...
Some critics fear that early instruction, like an overdose of vitamins, can be harmful. Dr. Paul J. Kinsella, director of the Developmental Reading Clinic at Lake Forest, IIl., figures that a young child's hearing and seeing are so disorganized that parental pressure to read may only confuse him or cause emotional blocks that would permanently impair his reading. Dr. Evelyn Pitcher, chairman of child study at Tufts University, recalls a four-year-old girl who could read, but "all other aspects of her development were neglected. She did not want to play, was not popular, and withdrew into...