Word: hara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comforting sense of security is exceedingly important. The only serious strike Toyota ever had was in 1950, after 2,000 workers were let go. Before the strikers returned to their jobs, President Kiichiro Toyoda had to accept personal responsibility for the firings and commit a kind of corporate hara-kiri by resigning...
...flashy week for pennyweighters-underworld argot for jewel thieves. Among the more prominent victims: Film Actress Maureen O'Hara, vacationing in Australia ($56,000 in jewels heisted from her Sydney hotel room); Singer Teresa Brewer (relieved in Las Vegas of a gold necklace and diamond ring valued at $5,300); TV's Virginia (Girl Talk) Graham ($75,000 in diamonds, pearls and sapphires missing from her hotel room in Chicago...
...Best. O'Hara had little patience with writers of the '60s; he was of an earlier era, a contemporary of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis. "I've never been able to read Norman Mailer," he complained in 1967. "Mailer is a dirty Saroyan." Bernard Malamud and William Styron received the same short shrift. Most young writers, however, confess to at least a degree of admiration for O'Hara. "He has more genius than talent," John Updike wrote in 1966. "Very little censoring went on in his head, but his best stories have the flowing...
...recent years, however, younger critics hit O'Hara hard, charging that his preoccupation with the upper middle class made him no longer relevant. That sort of criticism stirred O'Hara. Asked about his increasingly conservative views, he told a friend not long ago: "If I were 21 years old, I would probably be a good deal more concerned about race and poverty and other problems than I am, because if I were 21, I would be more alive to what's going on. But when you've only got a certain number of years to live...
Died. John O'Hara, 65, untiring and prolific cataloguer of 20th century U.S. manners and morals (see page...