Word: leprechauns
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...wrote a poem called "Six Sanichles," and here we can see, in the rejection of his earlier life, the renewal of his craft: TO JAMES STEPHENS Now that the iron shoe hangs by the nail Once more and nobody has cared a damn. Stick to the last of the leprechaun--I, too, Have meddled with the anvil of our trade... THE TALES OF IRELAND The thousand tales of Ireland sink. I leave Unfinished what I had begun nor count As gain the youthful frenzy of those years...
...Internal Revenue Service is collecting taxes, certainly, but it is also trying to explain its embarrassing link with "Operation Leprechaun," in which undercover agents, including at least one curvaceous woman, gathered information on the sexual and drinking habits of 30 public figures in the Miami area. There are morning-after doubts that the CIA'S Herculean effort to raise a sunken Soviet submarine could have produced much valuable intelligence. The notion grows that it might have been a $350 million project for men still playing James Bond...
...number of IRS horror stories. ABC News recently aired on national TV an hour-long documentary accusing the IRS of being too willing to share confidential tax returns with other Government agencies and of occasionally using heavyhanded tactics to collect money. Newspapers have been filled with reports of Operation Leprechaun, a Nixon-era scandal involving alleged recruitment by IRS tax sleuths of a sex spy to collect information on prominent Floridians...
Alexander has responded to these attacks with enough aplomb to cast doubt on his own statement that "I'm not a p.r. man, and I'd finish last in a popularity contest." Last week he assured a House subcommittee that his agency is investigating Leprechaun and seeking to establish who was to blame. He guardedly compliments the ABC documentary for calling attention to a genuine need for closer congressional supervision of the IRS. His position is bolstered by the fact that for all the current bad publicity - much of which concerns incidents that occurred before he took over...
...above all that obsolescent specimen, The Bookman. The bulk of his writing, like this last collection, was in the form of reviews. Posed against a floor-to-ceiling bookcase with his snub-nose schoolboy's impertinent face, he seemed as much in his natural habitat as a leprechaun in front...