Word: sean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sandycove on the Irish Sea, Dublin at last paid formal homage to the genius of a man who had long outraged and puzzled it-James Joyce. At the start of a week-long tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site was carefully chosen...
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of The Prince and the Pauper, a film made in England and starring Guy Williams and 14-year-old Sean Scully in the dual title role. Color...
News of last week's cease-fire was greeted skeptically by Eire's Prime Minister Sean Lemass, himself an old I.R.A. hand, who as a 16-year-old was captured by the English, booted in the backside and told to "go home to Mum." But though the I.R.A. craftily hid its weapons and warned that it planned to "prepare for another situation," its leaders would find few fellow countrymen willing to die in 1962 for the Six Green Fields...
...Among them: Poets William Butler Yeats (who was an I.R.A. "morale officer") and Oliver St. John Gogarty; Playwrights Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan; Novelists Sean O'Faolain, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor...
...Williams, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and three New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, is a consummate master of theater. His plays beat with the heart's blood of the drama: passion. He is the greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill, and barring the aged Sean O'Casey, the greatest living playwright anywhere. Dissenting voices might be raised for a thoughtful and clever shaper of ideas like Jean Anouilh. Yet the 20th century's three greatest playwrights as thinkers-Shaw, Brecht and Pirandello-succeeded less because they brought ideas into the theater than because...