Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short stories collected in The Cape Cod Lighter demonstrate O'Hara's perception of the hypocracies and paradoxes of our civilization. In the land of the free, the individual is trapped. Each story broadens our understanding of our lives by reminding us of the myriad restrictive pressures which confine us: sex, society, manners, ambition, obligation, capitalism, habit...
...John O'Hara is generally considered a fine stylist. He is easy to read, unusually observant, and apparently easy to understand. The setting and dialogue of O'Hara's stories are so familiar to contemporary Americans that reading his work seems at first glance to require no more imagination than watching a situation comedy on television, or a Doris Day movie...
...Hara's work is far more profound than its trappings would suggest. Although he has occasionally been dismissed simply as the ranking historian of American manners, the Amy Vanderbilt of the Gibbsonville set, John O'Hara is one of America's important writers. For he is one of her most incisive and bitter social critics...
...Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara...
Time: 3 min. 58.6 sec., three-tenths of a second better than Beatty's own year-old indoor record. There was glory, too, for Tom O'Hara; he had run his first sub-four-minute mile, with 3:59.2. "Just after Tom passed me, I decided: 'This is it,' " said Beatty. "He had a big heart. All he lacked was experience...