Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JOHN CORRY'S Golden Clan, the family chronicle of one of America's wealthiest Irish dynasties, testifies eloquently to the pot's victory. Corry's book is an anecdotal biography of the Murray and McDonnell families, a legendary New York clan that once boasted enough money to buy an army and enough children to make the purchase unnecessary. Like any success story, the book starts with the meteoric rise of the family's patriarch, Thomas E. Murray, a founder of Con Ed, from the depths of shanty Irish poverty to the top of the corporate utility world, a $9 million...
...course, anyone who looks at Corry's book as a kind of Hibernian Roots is bound for a disappointment. The Murrays and McDonnells were simply not typical Irish-American families--none of Tom Murray's descendants would even look at a blue collar unless it buttoned down and didn't clash with a neatly striped tie. Up in the rarefied atmosphere of the really big money, strange things can happen, even to a family bent on preserving its heritage; and sometimes the Irish rich acted more rich than Irish. Such conditions could never produce a conventional saga of Irish Catholicism...
...made, and Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter and her beau say an entire rosary before embarking on an evening's date...
Bailey hit. Rose hit. Pat Zachry pitched. Dale Murray pitched. "We don't horse around," Anderson said. "My stars practice hard, so everybody practices hard. That makes an environment, and environment itself creates environment. Hitler turned little children into killers. If you can do it like that, you can do it the other way. I mean not destructive but constructive...
...automatically controlled system. Sometimes, when internal pressures threaten to blow the family apart, one member-usually a son or daughter-either knowingly or unknowingly agrees to become mentally ill. In a number of complex ways, this tactic holds the family together. But the child pays a big price. Says Murray Bowen, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University Medical Center: "The main building block of schizophrenia is the process through which parental immaturity is transmitted to children...