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...LOCKWOOD CONCERN by John O'Hara. 407 pages. Random House...
Drub-a-drub-drub. As a preacher, O'Hara ran heavily to bile. He played on a vast range of peeves-from the present times ("The Age of the Jerk") to a movie producer who had hard words for one of his scripts (he even "bombed out of television"). O'Hara has no use for President Johnson ("An uninspiring, uninspired man, whom no one loathes and no one loves"), or Bobby Kennedy ("There is something pathetic about a man who turns on the charm when he has none"), or the general run of newspapermen ("Only the game...
...kind words for Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles de Gaulle, and Goldwater supporters. "I think it's time that the Lawrence Welk people had their say," wrote O'Hara. "The Lester Lanin and Dizzy Gillespie people have been on too long. When the country is in trouble, like war kind of trouble, man, it is the Lawrence Welk people who can be depended upon...
Fired all the Same. O'Hara had some special ink for the men who canceled him. "When syndication is involved," he wrote in his final column, "a bush-league editor likes to king it on his remote little throne. His paper may be paying something like $15 a week for a column, but the editor can play big shot by 'firing' a writer he has never met, is not likely to meet, and never should meet. The editor has convinced himself that he, like my movie producer, can bang out as good a column...
...telephone pad." To illustrate a friend's poem in 1948, he made his most haunting "doodle": three powerful vertical bars with three hard-pressed black ovoid forms caught between each. They could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after the fight." Motherwell titled it Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and has obsessively used the visual metaphor 102 times in the intervening 17 years, even adapting it to the Irish Rebellion, until it has become...