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...FAMILY by Edwin O'Connor. 434 pages. Atlanfic-LiMie, Brown...
With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction. O'Connor's next two novels, The Edge of Sadness and I Was Dancing, fell progressively short of Hurrah's high mark. All in the Family falls shorter still...
...format, Family is like every other O'Connor book. The scene is a place very much like Boston and the Irish-Catholic community-bounded by faith, politics and new money-that O'Connor has explored so often before. On his trip, however, he has no clear idea where he wants to go, except that his :amily should resemble the Kennedy clan only in the most superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion...
...ever been in in my life," "the most uncomfortable interval of my life," "the most grown-up boy of around my age I had ever met"-and with synthetic velocity: "Suddenly, another letter came," "Suddenly I knew." Loyal readers will suddenly feel that this novel is not O'Connor at his best...
...proposal was endorsed in testimony before Chairman Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee by three corporate chiefs: A.T. & T.'s Frederick Kappel, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Stuart Saunders and Campbell Soup's William Murphy. They agreed to testify under pressure. Commerce Secretary John Connor phoned Murphy, urged him to testify and to recruit other members of the President's "club" of business advisers to come...