Word: hara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. Another report from the O'Hara country of eastern Pennsylvania, this one the story of George Lockwood, whose "concern" is to become a gentleman-a concern which has turned into an O'Hara obsession and, consequently, is a bit boring...
...Cadets' strongest event will probably be the backstroke. Kerry O'Hara won the backstroke last year in 2:05.3, a time that Harvard's John Holland and Al Lincoln will find hard to beat...
Wrong Defeat. There is, of course, a great deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses). His brother kills himself-and the mis tress. In the end there is no one left of the Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that...
...there isn't. Lockwood has everything that riches can buy, but he still has the feeling that he is being denied something. It bothers him. It still bothers O'Hara-who has also made it. And that is just the trouble-both with Lockwood as a convincing character and O'Hara as a novelist. For it no longer bothers anybody else. The upwardly mobile do make it. The rich are no longer exclusive. O'Hara is fighting a battle against the Establishment that the Establishment itself has long since quit fighting...
...social history (which O'Hara insists he is writing), it seems no longer relevant. Reading O'Hara is beginning to take on something of the feeling of reading a Victorian novelist...