Word: leprechauns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Press; 127 pages; $8.95), is a collection of cartoons both secular and otherwordly, selected from the pages of the liberal Catholic journal The Critic. Here a prim stewardess warns a passenger, "You can't read erotic books while we're in Irish air space," and two dour leprechauns, spotting a leprechaun bishop under a toadstool, observe. "So much for our carefree, puckish way of life." Funny fauna inhabit Animals, Animals, Animals, edited by George Booth, Gahan Wilson and Ron Wolin (Harper & Row; 241 pages; $12.50), an old-fashioned chortler of a book. Next to a sign reading...
South Boston, like Kelly, is decked out this week, and what the decorations lack in freshness they make up for in green. The Pizzarama at the corner of Dorchester Ave. sports a host of paper leprechauns under a sign that reads pizza, pasta, subs." Across the street in the window of Charlie's Deli, next to the German sausage and Jewish salami, are enough green hats to outfit the entire IRA. The leisure suits in the window the Bayview Men's Store have given way to the spring collection of "I Love Southie" t-shirts, and down the street...
There should be plenty of other non-locals at the fair, so visitors don't have to worry too much abou feeling out-of-place. Leprechaun Imports sells most of its stock of shot glasses decorated with maps of Ireland and kelly green track sneakers to tourists, and the lady behind the counter swore she had just gotten off the phone with an Irishman in Los Angeles who was interested in a South Boston warm-up suit...
Stanford '37 Bill McCurdy, a delightful leprechaun who has served as cross country coach here for as long as anyone can remember, was talking about the Crimson's chances in its opening three races against the Eastern powerhouse trio of Northeastern, UMass and Provicence...
...should read Breslin. He's a foine ruddy Irish lad who latched onto that foine ruddy Irish pol Tip O'Neill to become the Giant Leprechaun who could set the truth free about Watergate...