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The four weekly events are: an op-ed in the style of the New York Times (750 words or thereabouts); a New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece (750 words or thereabouts); the first 1,000 words of a Vanity Fair profile; and a breaking news story (750 words or thereabouts).
The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.
I was once at a Jewish friend's birthday party where somehow the guests, mostly Jewish, got to talking about their grandparents, most of whom came from Kiev and thereabouts.
(Or thereabouts.)
Michael's first column will appear Tuesday, Oct. 28 (or thereabouts).