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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years, but he set an example I'll follow for as long as I can remember his smile, his concern and his life. I think I speak for everyone in wishing that I'd only had a little more time with a man we all called friend. Brian O'Leary...
PRIZE STORIES 1979: THE O. HENRY AWARDS...
Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards contains no such surprises. It is a solid, predictable gathering with one interesting sociological twist. Most of the stories are about failing marriages. Three reasons suggest themselves: more writers are writing about what they know, and what they know is failing marriages; the subject is particularly appealing to the editor; or both...
There are two exceptions. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Rough Strife is a shrewd and sensitively contoured exploration of young marriage and pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent and deceptively lighthearted evocation of a woman's fantasies about Elvis Presley. Hecht strikes the right balance of irony, nostalgia and affection for a time when Presley and the short story itself were still in full bloom...
...John E. O'Neil, assistant manager of food services for the Freshman Union, said yesterday most of Holcombe's grievances were well-founded...