Word: revellings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
...since Crane left than it did in all the years that he reigned. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Jones criticizes the council for playing politics above all other concerns. "City Council just doesn't have a leader in the crowd. Many are unhappy as it is but others just revel in it," Jones says...
...turning point, and I think that we are going to come into one of the greatest and most exciting periods in the history of the world. Jean-François Revel, author of that book Without Marx or Jesus,* wrote on this subject and said: "I don't think the answers are going to come from the Communist world or from the old, European countries. The one place where there is flexibility and creativity enough is America." I remain an optimist. I see opportunities for improving the quality of people's lives not only here but in other...
...blanket-bundled spectators who will line the shores Sunday starting at 11 a.m., sipping rum and feasting on fried chicken, the regatta is a reminder of what rowing used to be. As they admire the precision and the colors, and revel in the bygone aristocratic ambience, most are unaware of the dog-eat-dog competition--the aggressive rowing, shrewd steering, even the confidence in a coxswain's voice--which separates the winners from the nature lovers...
...lived on the Indian side in summertime. By three in the afternoon, the picture windows are dark with myriad blackflies whose incessant buzzing makes silence unbearable. The scourge of the summer months, these minute beasts congregate in St. Augustine to revel in the poor drainage, ubiquitous trash and human filth. Most of the Indian children are under 12, and their resistance has not yet developed. They are beseiged with impetigo--a skin disease manifesting itself in open sores all over the body. Every blackfly bite that is scratched becomes an oozing sore, attracting more flies. Relief is guaranteed only with...