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...Clearly, their rights would have to be ensured in a united, predominantly Catholic Ireland ?although it is far from clear just how. The Provos, who tend to be rather cloudy in their thinking about the political future, favor a federation of Ireland's four ancient provinces (Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught), each with its own parliament and a measure of internal autonomy...
...disfiguration during the 19th century industrial revolution that blighted England's cities but bypassed Ireland, in part because of its disastrous famines, in part because of its own preoccupation with its more romantic national affairs. The Bank of Ireland (once the Irish Parliament), the Four Courts, the Rotunda, Leinster House (where the Parliament now sits) are monuments to a gracious age. Even the railway stations, when at last the railway came, are beautiful. Dublin, too, has some horrendous slums, but from them emerge some of the most beautiful-and dirty-children in Europe...
...ordinary bloke with a kind heart than the wearer of a coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings started by his Duchess No. 2. In Edinburgh last week, Argyll, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and Salesman of Argyll Socks in all the ads, was trying to shed Duchess...
...yarns in Dean Leinster's anthology, Great Stories of Science Fiction, do not meet all his specifications, but they do illustrate a trend. The first story is simply for laughs, almost a parody of previous space operas: Otho, first ambassador from Philistia, reaches Washington in a rocket ship easily enough, then gets into trouble with the girls because of his X-ray eyes. In Blind Alley, rich and nostalgic Mr. Feathersmith hires the devil to restore the home town of his boyhood, but soon realizes that life in good old Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected...
Most of the twelve Great Stories (Leinster modestly includes only two of his own) still put too heavy a strain on credibility, e.g., in one, a dead dancer carries on, mentally at least, when her brain is transferred to a metal figure. But the best of the stories show signs of serious effort to keep fantasy within hailing distance of reality. SF cultists of the old guard may deplore the trend-on the ground that it threatens, sooner or later, to take all the amazement out of the amazing. But it will be all right with most book publishers. Though...