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...next moment by machine-gun bullets, Farrell captures the bittersweet agony of that time. Most of all he captures the strength of the Irish spirit and the lilt of Irish speech, not in rank dialect but in the kiss of the brogue. Farrell's lifework may well challenge Liam O'Flaherty's Famine as the national novel of Ireland...
...Mercy, Mr. Percy." By January, he was gaining on Carpentier - but not much. Then Carpentier had a heart at tack, pulled out of the primary, and died a couple of months later. Percy's new opponent was State Treasurer Wil liam Scott, 37, who charged into the campaign avowing his all-out dedication to conservatism and his total support of Barry Goldwater for President. Percy decided to take a chance. Although Illinois was considered a bastion of Barryland, he hedged his commitments to Goldwater. Said Percy: "I have made it clear all along that I am running on state...
When new FCC Chairman E. Wil liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer...
...ultraconservative Roman Catholic clergy still heavily censors the arts and entertainment. At one time or another, many of the best native authors have been banned from libraries, including works by George Moore, Liam O'Flaherty, O'Casey, Frank O'Connor, Shaw, Brendan Behan. But things are easing up a little. Cinematic sex has become so much sexier and more frequent, ex plains Justice Minister Haughey, that the censors have been told to go easy with the scissors, "or else our cinemas won't get any films at all." Another sign of the new liberality...
Liberal arts majors on campus, and in later life, too, often get a grating impression that physical science majors consider the choice of "hard" sciences an automatic proof of intellectual superiority. But is it? Definitely not in Britain, anyway, says Psychologist Liam Hudson of Cambridge University-not if the criterion is a capacity for imaginative thinking...