Word: hara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, if they had kept O'Hara long enough, editors would have discovered that he was impeccably impartial. He was simply a scold in spats. "We are living in the Age of the Jerk," he wrote in one of his last pieces. "The manifestations of Jerkism are all over the place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle...
Here's O'Hara again, back only five months after publication of The Lockwood Concern. This time he's trying to make a little champagne out of pure fizz. My Turn is a collection of O'Hara columns that were featured and syndicated by Newsday, the Long Island newspaper (TIME, October 8, 1965). O'Hara's career did not last very long; some client newspapers dropped him, and Newsday itself did not renew his contract after 53 weeks...
...tart final column, O'Hara claims that the newspapers canceled because he was too conservative for their tastes. Most readers who like O'Hara enough to plow through the book, which covers everything from politics and education to journalism and television, will concede that he has a legitimate beef...
Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, TIME) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many. While his Coolidge-era conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the river bed as well, it still is a sorry commentary on the press that some editors apparently became disenchanted with him because he supported Goldwater ("It's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say"), criticized the Kennedys ("Instant Adamses"), and loftily dismissed President Johnson ("an uninspiring, uninspired...
...Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder. In the title tale, a young mother whose little son and daughter have recently drowned reluctantly realizes that her heart is not broken, impatiently longs for her own death as the only remaining event of possibly equal interest. Deft in execution, ironic in tone, the stories...