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Hoffa's House heads included such lib eral Democrats as Oregon's Edith Green (her sins: being Kennedy's Oregon cam paign manager and her "ugly" role on the House Labor Committee). Missouri's Richard Boiling ("bad actor"), Michigan's James O'Hara ("bad actor"), and Indiana's John Brademas ("bad actor...
...HARA South Bend...
...Ourselves to Know, O'Hara...
Consistent but Shallow. With his usual sharp and overly detailed sense of time, place, speech and custom, O'Hara sets the scene. The events are dramatic enough-the murder itself, a near lynching, and several seductions (not nearly as many, though, as in recent O'Hara novels). But the real drama, revealed piecemeal and with a strange detachment, takes place in Millhouser's own soul. He was born in the 1850s, idolized his father, and never really recovered from the father's death shortly after the Civil War. His mother, a strong but withdrawn woman, could...
Understanding but Awkward. The trouble may be that Novelist O'Hara has hedged his commitment to interior dialogue. He strains Millhouser's musings through a narrator, a young man who begins to talk with the murderer out of curiosity and continues the conversations because he hopes to write his master's thesis in form of a novel. The device is awkward, and the frequent asides to the reader are irritating. A scene in which the young man fancies he js in communication with the shade of Millhouser's mother is as embarrassing as any in recent...