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Died. Frank O'Hara, 40, poet, art critic and associate curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; of injuries suffered while standing on the beach when a "beach-buggy" driver, blinded by approaching headlights, swerved and ran over him; on Fire Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...same time. Modern literature and drama vividly depict his psychic desperation, from Bellow's Herzog to Miller's After the Fall, from Albee's Virginia Woolf to Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence, from the novels of John Marquand to the novels of John O'Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering out between the empty gin bottles and the full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demography: The Command Generation | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Antiques Extant. The mayor's prestige was at stake in two congressional races. Seeking a ninth term aboard Daley's delegation to Washington, Rep resentative Barratt O'Hara - who at 84 is the oldest member of the House -was challenged by Abner Mikva, 40, a liberal with a distinguished ten-year rec ord in the state legislature. Though O'Hara rarely gets home to his problem-racked South Side constituency, the smooth-purring Democratic machine came to his rescue, helping him to win, 33,789 to 31,180. Said O'Hara, a Spanish-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: The Daley Triple | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scold in Spats | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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