Word: connor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baby in a Month? If a crash program, atomic style, could get started, would it pay off? Probably not. according to President John T. Connor of New Jersey's Merck & Co.. Inc. (TIME, Aug. 18. 1952), who gave the committee the results of his company's private survey: "There is real concern that the public is being misled into believing that you can buy discovery with money, that nine times as much money will cure nine times as many diseases or one disease in one-ninth the time. As one of those interviewed...
...Connor was definitely his mother's son, but, Mother being what she was, he may not have been his father's. That, at least, is his own account. Critical Britons attributed Mother's dark skin, social gaucheries and infantile giggle to the fact that her grandmother was Burmese. Father was "descended from the last High King of Ireland" and expressed his royalty in the form of detestation of "gainful occupation." As Father soon disappeared, Mother was forced to live by her wits-which she did in a London cellar with an "uncle," known as "Jacko" or "Poor...
Messiah & Wolf. So precarious was Mother's way of life that young O'Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into...
Rubber-Walled Cell. Later a wealthy woman called "L" became O'Connor's mistress and patroness, bought him erector sets, clockwork trains, motorcars, liquor, and phonograph records ("Tchaikovsky for ... relishing misery . . . Stravinsky for hangovers"). All the while, she "walked by "my side, never-ceasing in her disciple's adoration." But by the time the two of them had spent all "L's" capital, she had reached the stage where she "complained of Indians staring at her" and attacked O'Connor with chopper, razor blades and cutlery. Soon, "L" was tucked away "in a rubber-walled...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...