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...McGahern is often described as a great Irish writer, but he see that as a foolish categorization." "Somebody who set himself up to be an Irish writer would be a fool," he said, speaking of himself, "because you're Irish anyhow. It's an accident, and the less said about it the better." If he is a great writer, this may be his greatness, that his stories concern themselves with people and not nations, things he can know that may speak to things he cannot. "The very sky, the speech, all those things I inherited from the fact that...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Silence, Gunning and homebodies | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...probably wasn't the only one whose lips puckered on hearing the news of Justice Harry J. Blackmun's impending retirement. I mean no disrespect to the justice (nothing excessive, anyhow)--I simply relish the possibility of witnessing yet again that greatest of American political spectacles: the Senate confirmation hearings...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Dilettantism, Washington-Style | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...expect it will have it will have any impact," he said. "Two people would have wound up as alternates anyhow...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Two Jurors Released From Walsh Trial | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

...Warning others is unnecessary because everybody should act safely all the time anyhow," argues Rob Teir, a gay activist in Washington. But human nature is such, strong data show, that most people cannot bring themselves to act safely all the time. A fair warning that they are about to enter a highly dangerous situation may spur people to take special precautions. The moral duty of those already afflicted, though, must be clearly articulated: being intimate without prior disclosure is like serving arsenic in a cake. And not informing previous contacts (or not helping public authorities trace them without disclosing your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiv Sufferers Have a Responsibility | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great friend, a wonderful man," Kingsley also has a touch of the bullying pedant in him, a dab of Wackford Squeers. "I was just never that mean," says Pandolfini, a famous soft touch. "I hope not, anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chess's Wise Child | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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