Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHN O'Hara's latest work, Assembly, is another colossal waste of talent. For years, we have waited for O'Hara to live up to the considerable promise he showed in Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8; but, with an occasional exception, he has been content to turn out slick, meaningless potboilers...
Last week in Madison Square Garden, Beatty was told by Coach Igloi, "Go out and run and see how it develops." Coach and Beatty expected a 4:02 or 4:03 would do the trick. But Beatty was tagged by Loyola Sophomore Tom O'Hara, who cut a startling 6.5 sec. off his own previous best time to keep up the blistering pace...
...three-quarter mark, the clock was only .3 sec. behind Beatty's world record time. But an anxious over-the-shoulder look was a mistake; Beatty breasted the tape at 4:00.9, 10 yds. ahead of O'Hara...
Assembly, by John O'Hara. More than most short-story collections, this is a mixed bag; O'Hara is very good when he depends on his unmatched skill at seeing and hearing, and very bad when he ventures into abnormal psychology...
Assembly, by John O'Hara. The laureate of upper-middle-class Easterners ranges ably across the old home pastures and sometimes jumps the fence into other pastures in 26 short stories...