Word: caped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short stories collected in The Cape Cod Lighter demonstrate O'Hara's perception of the hypocracies and paradoxes of our civilization. In the land of the free, the individual is trapped. Each story broadens our understanding of our lives by reminding us of the myriad restrictive pressures which confine us: sex, society, manners, ambition, obligation, capitalism, habit...
...Hara's fiction does not glorify American life, it satirizes it. The accuracy with which he describes our way of life in The Cape Cod Lighter is matched by the poignancy with which he mocks it. In "The Bucket of Blood" Jay Detweiler runs a small bar, and has an affair with a local prostitute. Finally he ends the romance when she wants to hustle in his joint, even if it means marrying him. "He was sorry to break off with Jenny, and amidst his regret was deep appreciation of the compliment to himself and to her business...
...golden retriever are all part of his headmasterly charm. A daily fixture on the playing fields of Exeter, he is famous for scrimmaging with the football team, skating with the hockey team, coaching the crew from his single shell on the Squamscott River. An avid sailor, he races off Cape Cod in his ancestrally named yawl Arbella. He may have slowed down a bit since 1961, when a flying hockey puck almost blinded one of his eyes, but he still plays tennis and beats 90% of the faculty...
...like Achilles, inflames them and casts them off. Ann is supposed to be bitchy, but Miss Vogel is too callous to make me believe she could arouse anyone's lust. Peter Gaylord (Peter Hoagland) loves Ann Timmons and wants to take her away from the filth of Cambridge to Cape Cod, where he teaches high school. He stands for the home truths: love over lust, sincerity in place of affectation. But again I don't believe a real Ann Timmons would ever sit with him at the Casa-B, much less leave the Square with him for a quiet life...
...Earth, snuggled by gentle gravitation and sheltered by the atmosphere. So careful are its guardians to keep it clean and uncontaminated, they even dress like medical men and work in an antiseptic, hospital-like atmosphere. While the spacecraft resists corrosion from water vapor and the sea-salted air of Cape Canaveral, anxious humans are always around to protect it; it gets what energy it needs through a bundle of wires called an umbilical cable. This sheltered period is comparable to a baby's gestation in its mother's womb...