Word: connor
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...conscience, because civil law is made "not to uphold religious convictions of a particular group, but to promote the common good of all citizens." Lined up behind reform were New York's top Catholic politicians, from Senator Bobby Kennedy to New York City Council President Frank O'Connor...
Died. Frank O'Connor (real name: Michael O'Donovan), 62, consummate Irish storyteller; of a heart attack; in Dublin. The son of a Cork laborer, O'Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education...
BRET HARTE by Richard O'Connor. 331 pages. Little, Brown...
...quite enough to warrant a strictly literary biography. Biographer O'Connor, whose previous books have shown a taste for the minor figures in America's past-Bat Masterson, James Gordon Bennett Jr., Jack London-sensibly confines himself to the life and the figure of the man. Both make handsome contributions to the kind of story that O'Connor enjoys telling and consequently tells very well...
...rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...