Word: hara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HOPE or HEAVEN-John O'Hara-Harcourt, Brace...
John O'Hara's first two novels impressed critics for two reasons. They revealed his command of native dialect and his willingness to enter into the minds of recognizable U. S. types to see what made them tick. Thus, in Appointment in Samarra, he explored the consciousness of a Pennsylvania Cadillac dealer who committed suicide; in Butter field 8, the crossed-up life of a New York speakeasy girl who had better reasons for letting herself...
What made these people destroy themselves? Author O'Hara did not so much solve the problems he set for himself as simply worry them apart. He examined the friendships of his victims, their financial jams, their new & old love affairs, their prejudices, inhibitions, the tormented jokes they cracked about their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal...
...Actress Young had been refused permission to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind for Myron Selznick's producer brother, David. Reason: Whoever plays Scarlett O'Hara will get higher billing. Wags said it was just as well, that at the rate Gone With the Wind was progressing Actress Young would be old and grey before the cameras started turning...
...eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel as big as a four-passenger omelette," the New Republic...