Word: leprechauns
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...Crimson is playing, the Irish had better start looking for some four-leaf clovers and a leprechaun before they come to Cambridge this weekend...
...past years, November I was an unofficial holiday. It was the day when the Leprechaun returned to the Parquet. I would be over the mental anguish that only the Boston Red Sox could inflict...
...feels that the perpetuation of the happy drunk leprechaun stereotype is equivalent to an ethnic slur, and therefore encourages the Harvard community to celebrate March 17th not by drinking beer, but by engaging in more culturally appropriate activities, such as reading Yeats or, perhaps, watching John Wayne physically drag a woman's body through the Irish countryside in "The Quiet Man." Now, how's that for "rich and beautiful Irish culture...
Through the '70s, his pictures rose steadily in price. Bluff and leprechaun-like, Adams became a peripatetic public figure. Artistically, his popularity reflected the fact that his classic 19th century style possessed more than a trace of romanticism. "People look at my pictures," he said a few years ago, "and then accept them, in a sense, as reality." But it was the heightened reality of a photographer who made nature seem like Nature. "You don't take a photograph, you make it," he once said. Adams made himself into a photographer and then made others see the world...
Within a few years, the wizards at Bell Labs built the first fully transistorized (or solid-state) computer, a machine called Leprechaun. But by then Ma Bell, eager to avoid the wrath of the Justice Department's trustbusters, had sold licenses for only $25,000 to anyone who wanted to make transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young...