Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased crop of British correspondents is trying to depart from the cliche reporting of the past, which conjured up a fantasy land of red Indians, vast, untamed distances, beady-eyed Wall Streeters, scofflaw Chicago gunmen, political beasts and, more recently, nutburgers, healthatoriums and two-story doghouses. They also bring promise that the British reader will get a broader-based view of serious U.S. news than he has been able to get from the sometimes capable but always highly subjective accounts of the few old hands, e.g., the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke. Some of the newcomers have begun...
...exclusive of bath; now it must have 500 sq. ft. Storage space for a two-bedroom unit could total as little as 250 cu. ft., now must total 350 cu. ft. Hallways, once unspecified as to width, now must be at least 3 ft. from wall to wall. Equipment must be better. The hot-water heater that formerly developed chilblains almost as soon as the deed was signed now must have a prorated guarantee for five years...
...Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses. It is part of Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part of Author O'Hara's semifailure in his most ambitiously conceived novel that the embalmers art which...
...marriage. He and his best big-rich college pal begin manufacturing airplanes, and Alfred woos and wins a Wilmington, Del. socialite named Mary St. John, who subconsciously loves Alfred's trust fund about as much as she does Alfred. Eaton shortly abandons the sky for "The Street" (Wall) and later bars Mary from his bed but not board after she has an affair with an ambisextrous psychoanalyst. Alfred in turn is smitten with a nacreous 22-year-old named Natalie, and thus begins a 16-year-old triangle that develops many more than three angles. The secrets...
Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very...