Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELIZABETH APPLETON (310 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
Roughly four years ago, John O'Hara abandoned his long attempt to serve up the Great American novel in three-deck fictional sandwiches. It was a good thing, both for O'Hara and his admirers. For O'Hara sometimes seems to know too much about the minutiae of U.S. society for his own good as an artist. He is better in smaller compass. Since early 1960, he has brought out three good novellas, two normal-sized novels, a book of plays, two volumes of superlative short stories, and now Elizabeth Appleton, an attempt...
...attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back to the compound she gets winged by a Boxer sniper. The kindly old Viennese doctor (kindly old Paul Lukas) tells her that amputation is the only hope. Ava refuses. "Don't you want to live?" he asks...
...Hara-Kiri. After graduating from Tokyo University in 1911 with a degree in German law, Shoriki flunked the civil service exam that would have opened the way to a government career; he joined the Tokyo police force instead. By 1924 he was a deputy police chief, but that year he was sacked in disgrace after having inadequately guarded the prince regent (now Emperor Hirohito) during a botched assassination attempt...
...damn, double-damn, triple-damn, hell" trills one of the tots); the evil of drink ("My weakness in the eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words underlined"); and courtship ("Honest, Mom," insists MacArthur to O'Hara, "all we were doing was kissing-that's all"). The Spencer family owns a crag in the Grand Tetons, but they are poor...