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South of the border, the overwhelmingly Catholic populace of the Republic of Ireland demonstrated, in a remarkably peaceful election, that politics need not be sectarian. For only the second time in the Republic's history, Irish voters elected a Protestant to the largely ceremonial office of President. He is...
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. 261 pages. Barre Press, Imprint Society. $35. Written in 1903, this is still the world's greatest sailing suspense tale. It makes the cruise of two Edwardian Englishmen in tidal waters around Germany as immediate and harrowing as last summer'...
To the symbol-minded Joyce, the fabric of the story is not as it seams; with his unique portmanteauhold on language, he gives every line a sinister dexterity and gleanings of meanings. Finnegan, for example, is a Franco-English pun: fin-again-literally, resurrection. In a word, it sums up...
Furthermore, in Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, "we have the hump of sexual guilt he carries on his back (he is a different porter now), a hint of the ape, and more than a hint of the insect." To the straightforward reader, it may appear that the explanation only compounds the problem...
Undoubtedly the best race of the meet was the 200 yard breaststroke. For the first six laps Crimson sophomore Bill chadsey held a six foot lead over Army's Steve Childers. But then the gap began to close; for the last lap the two were neck and neck until Chadsey...