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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grunts of a western Irish pig. Flann even joked about the impulse that led him to learn his native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that it was important to revive a distant language in which absolutely nothing could be said." Yet in a letter to Sean O'Casey, O'Brien turned temporarily serious about the language that "enables us to transform the English language and this seems to hold of people who know little or no Irish, like Joyce. It seems to be an inbred thing...
...awaiting an acceptance letter from an Ivy League nunnery ("get thee...
Archibald Macleish, an associate of Leverett House and a well-known poet, is also concerned with Koirala. He sent a letter to the Nepalese government earlier this year urging Koirala's release...
Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for community affiars, yesterday presented a letter to the planning board which said Harvard's legal counsel had advised that a moratorium would be "contrary to applicable principles...
Everybody's favorite agency to hate is OSHA. "It is a four-letter word," says Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican. OSHA was set up to protect 50 million workers from safety hazards in their 4 million places of work. People who are self-employed are excluded from OSHA's scrutiny; so are farmers with ten or fewer workers. Safety in some kinds of employment?mining, railways, airlines, highways, atomic energy?is regulated by other federal agencies. An estimated 4,500 workers died in 1976 from accidents or disease related to their jobs (down from...