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THE LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. Another report from the O'Hara country of eastern Pennsylvania, this one the story of George Lockwood, whose "concern" is to become a gentleman-a concern which has turned into an O'Hara obsession and, consequently, is a bit boring...
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, wrote Robert Frost, and in this novel that something is the Pennsylvania Dutch peasantry on the farm lands and the immigrant Irish and Polish serfs in the coal "patches" upriver. A farm boy, intent on exploring the grounds, dies impaled...
Wrong Defeat. There is, of course, a great deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses...
Stieglitz had gone to Berlin to study engineering, but one day day he noticed a camera in a store window. He went inside and bought it. From that time, the camera "fascinated me, first as a passion, then as an obsession," Stieglitz wrote later. "The camera was waiting for me...
Goethe's greatest masterpiece, however, was Goethe. His character, though flawed, was a work of art; his life, though often desperately unhappy, was a singular achievement. Torn apart by huge and various talents that plunged like wild horses in all directions, he was driven by the threat of emotional...