Word: arland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surfeit. In a sparkling introduction, full of the kind of critical prodigality of ideas rare in the U.S., Ireland's Arland Ussher sees in Dangerfield a dangerous symptom. Says Ussher: "[Donleavy's] Fool-Rogue represents, fairly enough, the present mood of the world . . . The World after the Great Flood, a world to which the Great Peace and the two Wars, Christianity and Diabolism, have done their blessedest and damndest...
...MAGIC PEOPLE: AN IRISHMAN APPRAISES THE JEWS (158 pp.)-Arland Ussher-Devin-Adair...
Anyone wishing to "acquire a bloody nose," remarked a British reviewer last year, need only go to Dublin or Belfast and spout a few well-chosen lines from Arland Ussher's The Face and Mind of Ireland. Ussher, an Irish philosopher and art critic, paid his people handsome compliments, but he also larded in some remarks that no Irishman could take lying down-e.g., "To all appearance the Irish really have no sexual life, beyond the minimum necessary to perpetuate their cantankerous species...
...plans, drawn up by Arland Dirlan of Boston, incorporate large windows, blood wood, and a circular stairway in the parish house. A student center, located behind the main chapel, provides meeting rooms, offices, and a comfortable lounge. The basement contains a large recreation room complete with a stage. Pastor Edmond D. Steimle, who will be head of the Lutheran congregation, hopes the facilities will attract students of all sects to the church...