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...COMPLETE STORIES by Flannery O'Connor. 555 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Graham Greene once said that in any good writer a moment of crystallization occurs "when the dominant theme is plainly expressed, when the private universe becomes visible even to the least sensitive reader." In the work of Flannery O'Connor, who died in 1964 at age 39, that moment comes in one of her best-known stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. A maniac escaped from prison has just slaughtered a family despite the pitifully agile efforts of the grandmother to cajole or convert him. "She would of been a good woman," the convict mumbles...
Flannery O'Connor's characters are often poor whites in the postwar South she knew well. The stories tend to start with limited people whose superficial fretfulness shields fathomless self-satisfaction-women who are always "giving thanks" and telling their "niggers" to do likewise. By the end, their world has been shattered by some agent of evil greater than anything their cramped spirits could even recognize...
Dartmouth Proctor John O'Connor said that the students found the barn easily. "The instructions led right up to the barn," he explained. The students dismantled the bars and hauled the pieces away for their bonfire...
...Linsk and Hines, both running in their second five-mile race, could have a major bearing on the Crimson's success if they can adapt to the distance and the added pressure, but they will have to crack the Quakers' secondary wave of Rafferty, Ken Keehn and Frank O'Connor. It is a lot to ask, and it may be too much at this stage of the season...