NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS& VIEWS Lovable (?) Irish Murray Kempton didn't cotton to fellow-writer Pete Hamill's advice to new New York Governor Hugh Carey: Be an Irishman. "Please, Governor, spare us," Kempton wrote...
...The Times of London has noted the death at the Carmelite Monastery, Reading, of Sister Louise of Jesus, she "fortified by the Rights of Holy Church...
...Kempton, don't stop now...
...The Irish Republican Army...
...I speak, I confess, as one who believes that, if William of Orange had lost the Battle of the Boyne, we might all of us be living under the rule of some gibbering Stuart or other...
...Then, this ecumenical wish from one Hal Smith of Leroy Street: "May the Milk of Human Brotherhood curdle in your hypocritical gut...
...The Irish...
...Of course...
...Kemp-ton's anti-Hibernian logic: "The Irish are most fit to govern in functions that place them candidly on the side of the oppressors...
...Please, Mr...
...Irishmen blowing up people in saloons...
...Let's next hear about all those shiftless blacks, shylocking Jews, dumb-witted Poles, and villain Italians...
...Also boots by Lange of Broomfield, Colo., and bindings by Burt of Stamford, Conn...
...Since 1940, relations between Portugal and the Catholic Church in Angola have been governed by Concordat and Missionary Agreement between Lisbon and the Vatican...
...It's consolations like that which warm one's day...
...What benevolence they have comes out best on the side of despotism...
...Tomorrow in Angola Angola's achieving of independence from Portugal next Nov...
...The United Methodist Church is leading the call for a scrapping of the Missionary Agreement, which, it argues, has "impeded the growth of Protestantism in Angola...
...Rejoinder from George Bauer, Larchmont: "In answer to the questions in Tuesday's Forum, while skiing at Vail, President Ford used skis warmstructured by Ros-signol-USA in Burlington, Vt...
...In 1961, many United Methodist churches and facilities were closed by the colo- nial government...
...With all the problems of unemployment, inflation and a forthcoming depression in the country, why is Mr...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Shouldn't the President of the United States set an example in this time of crisis...
...Who sent Joyce to Trieste, O'Casey to London, and Oscar Wilde to the cold embraces of Lord Alfred Douglas...
...That from Michael O'Hara in Cocoa Beach, Fla...
...Kempton's advice to Carey: forget every opinion picked up at the father's knee...
...Response was predictably irate...
...the Burt Retractable binding, Lange boots, Scott poles, Roffe clothes, and presumably U.S.-made underwear as well...
...To Ski Is Divine The view of America from New York's Westchester County tends to be a mite special...
...Odds and Ends - Recognizing a social travesty when it sees one, the Courier-Journal, Rochester diocesan newsweekly, has protested against laws that permit news media to report results of lotteries and horse races...
...On that there seems no dispute...
...In his view, identification with the Irish as a class would be fatal to any social conscience that survives in Carey after those years with the Ways and Means Committtee...
...The political history of the Irish, like that of most nations, is one long particular betrayal of those principles their posture would suggest they hold most dear...
...Glen Gruman, Mamaron-eck: "While skiing at Vail, Colorado, President Ford is using skis made in France...
...The Missionary Agreement accorded privileged position for the Angolan Catholic Church, something almost certain to come to an end...
...The Courier-Journal wants to include bingo results...
...Looking forward to independence, United Methodists are asking for the re-opening of their churches and' mission stations, church tax exemption, and state aid for educational and health programs...
...Please, Governor, spare us," Kempton wrote in the Village Voice...
...Who ruined Parnell...
...Final word from Alfred H. Greenberg, Larchmont: ". . . President Ford apparently made a point of equipping himself with all U.S...
...The Kennedys, I am afraid, quite innocently beguiled too many of us into the delusion that the Irish have a special feeling for the unfortunate...
...I thought Westbrook Peg-ler was dead," wrote James E. Ferrissey of Third Avenue...
...I had hoped that the spectacle of Daniel Patrick Moynihan would by now have loosened the grip of that notion and freed us all to think of the Irish as the finks the essential story of their rise in our society has instructed us that they are, and to return to the reality which is that the typical Irish Congressman was John Rooney, the typical Irish labor leader was Joseph P. Ryan, and the typical Irish philosopher is not, unfortunately, Hamill, Breslin, or Flaherty, but whoever is editor for the Brooklyn Tablet...
...11 will result in some necessary adjusting on the Vatican's part...
...But even so...
...The Irish...
...manufactured gear...
...Who blows a stranger up in a saloon where he is taking his ease after the sort of day you're likely to have in Birmingham...
...Ford using imported skis...
...From Jews came admonishment...
...Hence, from the letter columns of the Mamaron-eck Daily Times, this display of national concern...
...Protestants number in the tens of thousands in Angola, as compared to 2.6 million Roman Catholics...
...Typo or editorial point, which...
Vol. 101 • February 1975 • No. 14
