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...addition, Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, will speak to the Bowdoin Political Forum today in Brunswick, Me. Former adviser to the Office of Military Government in Germany, Friedrich will speak on the subject of "Inevitable Peace...
...strike a balance sheet on a man's life at the mid-century mark. With Cozzens, O'Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...
...Jinx. Joylessness begins at home for Alfred Eaton in the turn-of-the-century Pennsylvania town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact...
...after World War I, Alfred tackles a career and marriage. He and his best big-rich college pal begin manufacturing airplanes, and Alfred woos and wins a Wilmington, Del. socialite named Mary St. John, who subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins a 16-year-old triangle that develops...
Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very...