Word: pub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAZZ. Mondays, at Michael's Pub (211 E. 55th St.), a group called the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
These conflicts are, of course, more complicated than religious fanaticism; they have a great deal to do with economic discrimination, battles for political power, questions of deeply laminated social difference. Nor do the wars involve religious doctrine-except in oblique, complex ways. A Belfast pub is not blown up to assert the Real Presence or the Virgin Birth. Many of the terrorists are atheists anyway. In such places as Ireland and Lebanon, religious leaders on all sides have prayed and pleaded for an end to the fighting. The I.R.A. is filled with the excommunicated, whose religious observances are limited...
Drop in any evening at a literary pub in Edinburgh and you are likely to find William Smellie, who will expansively declare that he was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1771. And he is apt to say of his achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according...
Author Honor Tracy calls it "double-speak, double-think"-the typically Irish form of banter that says one thing and means another. It has helped produce a race of verbally agile writers, politicians and pub crawlers. If McGill University Psychiatrist H.B.M. Murphy is correct, it is also producing a high rate of schizophrenia...