Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collins", the best story in The Cape Cod Lighter, carries this message of brotherhood. Through his friendship with the eminently successful Whit Hofman, Pat Collins builds up a good business. But there is a hitch: Pat's wife loves Whit and seduces him. When their affair ends, Mrs. Collins confesses to her husband, and his world collapses. Not sin, but Pat's loss of his friend brings failure. He loses all faith in himself. As his world crumbles, Pat spends his evenings at a speakeasy where he befriends a lonely elderly millionaire who has spent 35 years writing a life...
...course not even this moral is devoid of satire. O'Hara seems to say make good friends and make sure they're rich. O'Hara continues to explore the ramifications of friendship in "The First Day," and in "A Short Walk from the Station." In these stories attempts at friendship are rebuffed. He stresses love in "Jurge Dulrumple," where the love of two women for each other precludes their loving George Dalrymple. The frequency with which man's search for spiritual love fails provokes O'Hara's constant, and notorious, descriptions of promiscuity in modern America. Men must seek sexual...
Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier Mamadou Dia, after Dia had turned on Senghor in an attempted coup. Last week, in a referendum run off while Dia languished behind the barbed wire of a military camp outside Dakar awaiting trial for treason, the 56-year-old Senghor legalized his position as Senegal's strongman...
...first African ever to win France's coveted agregation de grammaire academic degree, and he served with distinction as a territorial member of the postwar French National Assembly. By all accounts, he has been brooding over the political circumstances which forced him to end his 17-year friendship with Dia and take over as strongman. But Senghor was not likely to let his sense of guilt get him down. He is, after all, a strong admirer of Charles de Gaulle, and modeled his new constitution partly on De Gaulle's design for the Fifth Republic in Paris. Perhaps...
That's about all there was to the event, but it is mercilessly hashed over in the book like the long count in the Dempsey-Tunney championship. One way or another, it was the end of a touchy friendship...