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Word: sean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 12, 1963 | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...nation's new mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...Though Sean Lemass is often chided in Parliament for foot-dragging on housing and farm reform, most of the nation's problems are a longtime legacy of national poverty and political timidity. What is radiantly different about Ireland today is the serious expectation that its ills and lags will in fact be corrected. Lemass will soon release details of a new six-year economic program that aims to boost the G.N.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...gods whistle in the air," wrote Sean O'Faolain. "The Otherworld is always at one's shoulder." The Otherworld and the real past are inseparably bound together in the Irish imagination and in the runic place names, from the pagan landmark called Two Breasts of Dana to ancient Waterford, where in 1170 Strongbow, the Norman Earl of Pembroke, clamped 71 centuries of English rule on Ireland. What the mists of legend cannot obscure is that for ages of religious persecution and economic exploitation, through countless risings and reprisals, the Irish slaved, starved and battled for their land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland: Lifting the Green Curtain | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Doctor No. This Ian Fleming thriller presents Secret Agent James Bond (Sean Connery) in all his exquisite martini-and-mayhem splendor. Maybe a bit too splendid to be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 21, 1963 | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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