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Impaled and Trodden. It took him nearly 30 years, says O'Faolain, to free himself by "slow, tentative, instinctive" steps from the "soft smother of the provincial featherbed." The first step took him to the university, where he learned "the hot and vivid [Irish] pleasures of aimless disputation, of purely contentious shindyism." A second, more important, step took him in 1920 into the Irish Republican Army. His experiences in the I.R.A., first fighting the British and later the troops of the Irish Free State during the civil war, left him with a "savage disillusion with Ireland's ineptitude...
...cared a great deal more than he thought. By the time his two years at Harvard were up, he knew that he "belonged to an old, small, much-trodden country, where every field, every path, every ruin had its memories, where :very last corner had its story." It took lim seven more years to get back, but he was back to stay. If his book is "a no to my own boyhood, my own youth, even to my own parents," it is a yes to "the basic experiment with life" that made him a writer. For better or worse...
...police dog resolution of a Cambridge Canine Corps to track down felons, strongly opposed using the dogs on routine police beats. "This idea is absolutely abhorrent to me," said Trodden...
...weeks, Washington has been waiting for Lyndon Johnson to fill a looming vacancy on the seven-man Federal Reserve Board, expecting his choice to signal whether the board will stress easy or tighter money. Last week, Johnson took the trodden path: he reappointed James Louis Robertson, 56, whose term officially expired in January, to another 14-year term as governor. Robertson agrees with Johnson that the thriving U.S. economy is not yet in a boom and thus needs no hike in interest rates to restrain its growth. Says he: "I don't intend to begin fighting inflation until inflation...
...fifth ballot they were ready to back Vellucci with three of their four votes. Trodden, whose bid for mayor two years ago was spoiled when Vellucci supported Crane, voted for Sullivan...