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...word "Celtic" is a real problem. I don't believe there is a Celtic so much as an Irish tradition. 'Celtic' makes the topic seem very remote and isolated, while Irish, Scottish or Welsh relate more personally to someone who might be flipping through a course catalogue, O Coilean says, "'Celtic' relates more to a basketball team...
...side of the road." He insists that Terry fill out an application to the clan on a cocktail napkin. A Northern visitor is worried that he means the Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose favorite songs are Old Scot Mother and Tobermory Bay, opens tonight with the song no one else dares sing if he is present: New York, New York...
...that time of union preeminence--or at least influence--appears to be gone. Now lan MacGregor, the iron-willed Scottish-American head of the NCB, will simply look elsewhere to fill Britain's coal needs. He has already imported coal from Poland, South Africa and the United States at prices cheaper than those of British coal, even with shipping costs included. Yet, with the odds and much of public opinion against them, the miners strike...
...hardness he may have acquired in his many years as a watchdog vanishes when the old trouper gives a vintage performance. Sometimes Deaver, standing in the back of an auditorium, listening one more time to the President using, say, a heroic Scottish ballad to make his pitch, finds his eyes growing moist with a familiar emotion. It is love, of course, a kind of deep filial devotion, and he is filled with it for Ronald Reagan. -By Robert Ajemlan
...paintings. Outside the gilt frames, hysteria and massacre ruled. France was continuously at war for most of Watteau's life. In the winter of 1709, men ate corpses in the streets of Paris; the French economy was wrecked by a wave of delirious speculation whipped up by a Scottish financier, John Law. But on canvas, the Cytherean games never end. Men need paradises, however fictive, in times of trouble, and art is a poor conductor of historical events. One thinks of the impressionists constructing their scenes of pleasure through the days of the commune of 1871 and the Franco...