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Immigrants to Ireland began to form second and third branches of the Irish soul. It was and is not uncommon for Souths and Norths in any land to diverge on the issue of charm v. hustle. But in Ireland the normal geographical split was widened by the nature of the settlers. In Ulster, these tended to be tough Presbyterian Scotsmen, with little taste for England but less for the Pope. Their role in an island without history was to keep the 17th century's religious acrimony and long-faced industry alive and to form a kind of museum...
...Belief. The fedayeen themselves seem undaunted by their high casualties; 50% losses in dead, wounded and captured are not uncommon, and since the beginning of the year, some 200 guerrillas have been killed. They also profess to be unconcerned by the apparent futility of many of their attacks, the intramural rivalries among commando groups, and signs of mounting conflict with other Arabs. They still have money -from Arab governments and private contributions-and enough recruits, and they seem determined to fight on regardless of consequences. As one of Al-Fatah's leaders said last week, "We are now living...
...feels. But he cannot tell anybody else what it is really like. Pain cannot even be precisely defined. Lay and medical dictionaries alike offer essentially circular definitions of it as hurt, distress or suffering-pain is pain. Half the medical textbooks say little about it, except for extreme and uncommon forms, and doctors learn correspondingly little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled...
...balance a pingpong ball on it; the ball will stay there for hours). With the panicky provincialism of a country kid clutching his wallet pocket on Broadway, he continually cautions them to count their change in taxis, to drink only bottled beer in nightclubs ("Mickey Finns are far from uncommon"), and to drive carefully. He observes with a shudder: "Your chances of spilling your blood or dying are three and a half times greater on French roads than on American roads...
...fiction of the late Flannery O'Connor is distinguished by an uncommon and otherworldly density. The inhabitants of her Southern creative country are grotesques who are viewed as through a Catholic prism darkly. Larger than life, her creations are yet pervaded by an air of death; their clear and dramatic actions nevertheless seem metaphysically resonant, touched by overtones of primitive brooding. Flannery O'Connor's achievement is all the more remarkable?not to say miraculous ?because of her meager literary output. She was just 39 years old when she died five years ago. Incurably ill from...