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Nothing will do, I suppose, but to bring out John Synge's dictum that "in a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple." If even Synge's own words are inadequate to describe the beauty of the County Mayo lyricism which he transcribed and transmuted, there is small possibility of my doing any better. Beauty is beauty. "Go and catch a falling star...
...business is likely to go on pandering to more undemanding millions than Hollywood ever envisioned. There is good reason: the occasional jackpot is full of jack indeed. For a borrowed $500,000 two years ago, Bombay Producer Mehboob Khan made a color film, Mother India (no kin to Katherine Mayo's book of the same name), which has since raked in $2,000,000. Mehboob's next step: getting Hollywood itself to lend a co-producing hand with an even more lavish film fetchingly titled Taj Mahal. What will happen when Hollywood and Bombay meet, Siva only knows...
Ireland, in the view of Mayo-born Novelist George Moore, was "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to disassociate himself." To the waspish eye of Novelist Honor Tracy, herself part Irish, Ireland is less a disease than a delusion. Its inhabitants live as snug and moist as a colony of clams in "a little bubble of [their] own imagining," feeding their dreams on "the piccolo, morte that lurks in the flagon...
...Republicans held all of Minnesota's top offices. The D.F.L. took a stand on a coalition platform of "sincere liberalism" that ranged (and still ranges) from high, rigid price supports for farmers to high unemployment insurance for labor, etc. Humphrey tramped the University of Minnesota, Rochester's Mayo Clinic, even high schools, recruited promising young liberals, put them to work in the tightly disciplined D.F.L. organizations and marked the comers as future candidates. Humphrey was elected to the Senate in 1948; Sidekick Orville Freeman won the governorship...
Munro is woefully short of depth, since his roster reads like a page out of a Mayo Clinic report. Furthermore, a majority of the injured men play halfback position, where Munro will have to depend on depth if not on experience or an abundance of skill...