Word: nar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author McNulty himself was no native Irishman, but a Massachusetts-born nar-rowback, a term used by the oldtime immigrants to describe the clerkly quality of their nonlaboring sons. Like a true narrowback, McNulty in his heart hungered for the lost village-and he found it in Third Avenue's vestiges of Irish life, in the awful cooking, the hatred of machinery, the acid yet basically gentle manner of one man to another. This last quality crops out in many stories: the querulous man who has to go into the Army without having anyone to say goodbye...