Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flanagan's forte is his cast-some of them historical characters, others fictive-each invested with a complex, fascinating personality. Here is the reluctant scribe of rebellion, Owen Ruagh MacCarthy, a vagabond poet who scrounges a living by running an outlaw school, reciting his Gaelic verses in the houses of the rich and pursuing neutral grain spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau...
Manhood. In the stark grandeur of Monument Valley an unhorsed outlaw hails a Stagecoach with a confident twirl of the Winchester he holds in his hand. The vehicle that carries the Ringo Kid to high adventure also carries the actor who played him on the first leg of a journey to immortality...
That was no Red Headed Stranger standing in the Oval Office in braids and denim pants. That was outlaw Country Star Willie Nelson presenting President Carter with a Steuben bowl for the President's efforts on behalf of country music. The award was recently created to honor people who make unique contributions to country music, and when the votes for the first recipient were counted, Carter was told, "lo and behold, your name led all the rest." Considering some of the other polls the President has been reading lately, that was sweet music indeed...
...union's lawyer, Michael Gottesman, contended that Congress wanted to outlaw only "invidious" discrimination. Said Chief Justice Warren Burger: "What you are saying is that you can discriminate for good motives, but not for bad motives." Gottesman responded that Congress had not intended to prohibit voluntary affirmative action, like the training program set up by the Steelworkers and Kaiser. If Weber wins, warned the company's lawyer, Thompson Powers, it "will literally end affirmative action...
...mother and first wife on the same day. "Black care," wrote Roosevelt, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." He rode hard, surpassing the doughty ranch hands whose ridicule turned to reverence. No body snickered when Teddy read Matthew Arnold on the trail of an outlaw gang...