Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAITING FOR WINTER by John O'Hara. 466 pages. Random House...
...many people come to a good end in the pages of John O'Hara. Lissome Andrea Cooper departs through a hotel window. Jimmy Rhodes dies of a precoital heart attack. Charles Kinsmith slips on the ice and expires after a bout of total recall. John Wesley Evans discovers that he is going blind. General Dixon L. Hightower quietly turns transvestite. Even Jack Harrison aboard his luxury yacht is oppressed by the thought that his crew plans to kill...
...Hara readers can confidently expect to be taken on a guided tour of a world where things happen. The language is clean and terse, and the code is more often amoral than immoral. Most O'Hara people live by the venerable adage, "If I don't do it, someone else will." Thus James Hatter has few compunctions about sleeping with his best friend's wife, and Starlet Natica Jackson even fewer about destroying a neighbor's marriage. A bitchy British countess in Hollywood sums up: "After all, everyone's naughty when the door is closed...
...parlayed a $500 investment into a fortune exceeding $10 million with a Philadelphia-based electronics firm that bears his middle name. Though he had long hankered to get into politics, the keepers of the Keystone State's Democratic machine-not unlike the G.O.P. bosses in John O'Hara's Ten North Frederick-wanted Milt's money more than they wanted Milt. To many party leaders, Shapp seemed an egotistical buffoon. There was also the fact that he was born Milton Shapiro-and no Jew had ever run for Pennsylvania's highest office...
...Hara sequel to the Frederick standoff was that Shapp decided to go it alone-with $1,400,000 of his own money. In May, he scored a triumphal 50,000-vote primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion...