It's a fine day for the Irish! In celebration the Dead Tree NY Times delivers this puzzle:
An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star
Dance Champion Breaks Sterotypes
GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and his mother is white and Jewish from Iowa. But his fame is international after winning the all-Ireland dancing championship in Dublin for a third straight year.
Drew is the first to admit that this is a lot to take in, so he sometimes hides part of his biography for the sake of convenience. As in 2010, when he became the first person of color to win the world championship for Irish dancing — the highest honor in that small and close-knit world — and a group of male dancers in their 70s, all of them Irish, offered their congratulations.
“They said, ‘We never thought it would happen, but we’re thrilled that it did,’ ” said Drew’s mother, Andee Goldberg. She added, “They don’t even know he’s Jewish. That hasn’t been broached. I think it would be too overwhelming.”
The web version omits the baffling "Dance Champion Breaks Sterotypes". What stereotype - that black people can't dance?
I liked Widmark in all those WWII movies they made in the '50s.
Posted by: Sara | March 18, 2012 at 12:11 AM
sounds like N. Pelosi and Obamacare which would free someone from "working" to pursue his or her dreams as an artist, philosopher or *whatever*.
Karl Marx-
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
Nancy Pelosi-
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance, or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk but not [be] job-locked because a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it. Any condition is job-blocking
Posted by: RichatUF | March 18, 2012 at 01:12 AM