Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DANCING by Edwin O'Connor. 242 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Early in his career, before he made a killing with his novel The Last Hurrah, Novelist Edwin O'Connor wrote occasional radio scripts. That fact may perhaps explain why O'Connor's latest book has such a familiar ring. / Was Dancing sounds like nothing so much as a discarded sequence from "Allen's Alley...
...Connor's hero is a gabby old stage Irishman named Daniel Considine. A former professional hoofer, he turns up suddenly one night at the home of his son in an unnamed city that is quite obviously meant to be Boston. Daniel has not seen or thought about his son in some 20 years, but he settles down in an upstairs bedroom to live out what promises to be a long and madding old age. In the eariy hours of the morning, before anybody else is astir, he can be heard shuffling through an old dance routine and quavering...
...Connor, I was Dancing...
This year's Harvard winners are: Donald A. Bloch; David A. Brown; Jeff Cheeger; Stanley F. Cohen; Timothy E. Connor; Lawrence J. Corwin; Keith M. Cushman; W. Bowman Cutter III; Robert H. Donaldson; John B. Dunlop; Barry M. Dym; Joseph W. Esherick; Nicholas W. Fels; David S. Forman; Douglas G. Frame; Donald Gertmenian; Raymond E. Glazier, Jr.; Robert L. Goldberg; Harold R. Goodyear; Richard H. Grossman; Gerald O. Grow; Alfred F. Guzzetti; Gordon P. Harper; Wilbur D. Hart III; John J. Hartman; Peter H. Herman; Paul L. Hoch; and Paul S. Hoff...