Word: hara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tales in Tales of Manhattan are based on events in the firm of Arnold & Degener, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza. The fictional partnership that handles this work could be called Maupassant, Maugham, Cozzens & Auchincloss. This firm is choosy about cases; any messy divorce work is discreetly referred to O'Hara, O'Hara, O'Hara & O'Hara, 10 North Frederick Street, Gibbsville...
...stage and the short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...
Died. Geoffrey O'Hara, 84, composer, who was the toast of Tin Pan Alley in 1913 when opera's great Caruso recorded Your Eyes Have Told Me and Al Jolson belted Tennessee to popularity, but is best remembered for his rollicking K-K-K-Katy, which became the barracks and marching favorite of World War I's doughboys; of hemolytic anemia; in St. Petersburg...
...Bourjaily's says more than that. It is an evocation of the memories of a whole generation, from the 100 Wings cigarettes of the Depression to the melodies of forgotten songs and long-silenced dance bands. The author's dialogue rings as accurately as John O'Hara's, and the New England pride of place and family are handled with the sureness of J. P. Marquand. The rhythm of the seas moves through the novel's pages, from an idyllic postwar voyage down the New England coast to the final, brilliant set piece, a Caribbean...
...private beach, or at the hyper-exclusive Bath and Tennis Club. At night, there is often a square dance, and though the music stops at 11 p.m., guests are free to borrow one of the hostess' limousines and cruise into town for frugging at O'Hara's until dawn...