Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara...
...novelists who have proved to be the really fecund and effective black humorists. They are pursuing aims that are very different from the painful psychological insights of John Updike or the detached precision of John O'Hara. But they are not avant-garde experimentalists: however startling their viewpoint, they move their subjects along in supple, readable style. Critic Leslie Fiedler proclaims flatly: " 'Black humorist' fits anyone worth reading today. It's the only valid contemporary work. You can't fight or cry or shout or pound the table. The only response to the world that...
...Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara...
Novelist Bryan, John O'Hara's stepson, was educated at Yale, served in the Army during the peacetime occupation of Korea, and after his discharge was caught in the call-up of reservists during the 1961 Berlin crisis. P. S. Wilkinson, the title character of this first novel, follows the same course. It is not good manners to inquire how much further the resemblance can be carried, because P. S. Wilkinson is tedious, self-pitying, unsufferably sensitive, and a prig. He did not enjoy his Army service in Korea. He also does not enjoy the company...
...when Man O' War died at the mature age of 30. Every six months, A.P. newspapers get a mimeographed list of additions and deletions; the notice circulated Jan. 1 of this year added Composer Benjamin Britten, Leonid Brezhnev, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy and Author John O'Hara, among others, plus a few revisions (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Frank Costello...