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Ireland's entrance into the modern world has come simultaneously with another phenomenon Kelleher says is changing the nation's literature--the loosening grip of the Catholic Church. "The change in the church has made a lot of (Irish writing) obsolete. When I was first teaching at Harvard, Catholic students could understand what much of Irish literature was about in its reaction to an old and authoritarian church. Now that church is gone, and it is hard even for Catholic students to figure out why writers reacted so strongly against the overwhelming power of the church." Reactions against the church...
...charge: plotting to kill Doe and other military leaders. Found guilty, the five men were led past a howling mob to the Barclay Training Center, Monrovia's main military barracks, to be shot and bludgeoned to death in their cells later that night. Besides consolidating Doe's grip on the P.R.C., says a Western diplomat, "the killings were a warning to the former civilians in the Cabinet." One who took the warning seriously was Minister of Planning Togba-Nah Tipoteh, an American-trained economist. Two weeks ago, he sent in his resignation from the safety of the neighboring...
Then there was the matter of pressing the flesh. Polk and William McKinley both developed extensive theories about the best way to shake many hands without pain or injury; Lyndon Johnson could extend a normal greeting into something like a mugging. Some Presidents failed handshaking. Benjamin Harrison's grip was likened to "a wilted petunia," while one newsman described Woodrow Wilson's as "a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper...
...Angeles Dodger Pitching Ace Fernando Valenzuela, 20, looked confused, it may simply have been that like some Washington Senators, he was wondering whether Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, 49, a former actor, had a good grip on the situation. The Mexican-born Valenzuela certainly knows every stitch on a baseball, as his 9-4 record attests. At the White House, where he helped welcome visiting Mexican President José López Portillo, the beer-fueled screwballer seemed to wish he were high and outside. Said Valenzuela: "All this attention doesn't bother me. I have four days...
...Afro-American studies department in 1969 as a concession to the Black militancy accompanying that year's spring protests, and since its inception, controversy surrounding Afro-American studies has often pitted the radical ideals and perspectives of its students and professors against a Harvard administration unwilling to relax its grip on the University's newest academic department. Perhaps the most dramatic display of anger was a series of rallies leading up to a day-long boycott of classes in the spring of 1979. The boycott was organized by students who charged Dean Rosovsky with maneuvering to establish an interdisciplinary committee...