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Earlier in the week, O'Connor mused that "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would be turning over in their graves." Who can be sure? But there is little doubt that those founding fathers would marvel at the ease, graciousness and widespread public approval with which this particular Justice has become a precedent. -By Richard Stengel...
...vote would have been a perfect 100 to 0, but Democrat Max Baucus of Montana, an ardent O'Connor supporter, had to return to his home state just before the vote...
COLLECTED STORIES by Frank O'Connor Knopf; 702 pages...
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) once described the short story as "the literature of submerged population groups." It is a regional definition with an old-fashioned thump of authenticity. O'Connor, born Michael O'Donovan in Cork, was no innovator. His stories lowered the reader directly into the weedy, half-lit world of Irish town life...
...Connor's literary roots owed much to small-town gossip. His father was a laborer who measured his days in pints. But the future writer had a strong mother figure in Minnie O'Donovan. She put bread on the table by working as a domestic, and acquired a taste for the classics by reading her employers' books. Minnie passed the love of Shakespeare and poetry on to her son. He later returned the love by publishing under her maiden name...