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I WAS DANCIXG 6)' Edwin O'Connor '39
(.Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown &
Co., New York, Toronto), 242 pp., §4.75.
Edwin O'Connor's fifth book, like The
Oracle, Beniy, The Last Hurrah (Atlantic
Prize, 1955) and The Edge of Sadness
(Pulitzer Prize, 1961), puts into play
another group of principally comic inventions
around a dominant central character.
Wily politician Frank Skeffington and devious
landlord Charlie Carmody have been
joined in the O'Connor gallcrj- of unforgettable
characters by an irrepressible
\-audevillian named Waltzing Daniel Considinc.
Daniel, a spr)' old song-and-dance man,
has spent his life in single-minded pursuit
of the spotlight and his own way. His own
way in retirement is to spend the rest of
his days with his son, whom he hasn't seen
in 20 years, and the total stranger to whom
his son is married. The young couple, wel-
0'oming him in their home as a temporary
guest, discover too late that he has no intention
of leaving. The conflict develops as
a battle of wills and wits between youth
and age, the young people determined to
move Daniel to a rest home and he equally
determined to stay.
The galler>- includes "witch doctor" Billy
Ryan, the strange Father Fecley and the
mournful, devoted Gottlieb among Daniel's
hilarious cronies. Without the high comedy
of The Last Hurrah or the pensivcness of
The Edge of Sadness, this book is lighter
in tone and treatment but preser\'es enough
^f the poignancy of its predecessors to have
^een accepted in dramatic adaptation for
production this season on Broadway.
O'Connor, a native of Providence, R.I.,
spent his early years in radio and broke
into print by satirizing that industr>- after
World War 11 sen'icc in the Coast Guard.
Married last year, he now lives on Boston's
Beacon Hill.
THE CATHOLIC CA.MPUS (Macmillan, New
York. 204 pp. $3.95) by Edward IVakin.
The Univeisity is one of a handful of
institutions cited as representing the complete
spectrum of -•American Catholic higher
education by Mr. Wakin of the Fordham
communication arts department. In "The
Will to Win" (pp. 33-68) Notre Dame is
pictured in great detail as perhaps the foremost
and fastest rising school in the U.S.
DISCIPLINE CO.VCEPTS I.V EDUCATIO.V (St.
Paul Editions, Boston, 343 pp., $5.00) by
Very Rev. Anthony A/. Brown '43.
President of Carroll College, Helena,
Mont., Fr. Brown has written what is probably
the most comprehensive sur\-ey ever
undertaken on attitudes and methods of
controlling behavior in school. He feels that
discipline in education has become one of
the major concerns of our era and that
more time should be spent on this subject
in educational me£hodo!og>' classes.
.-Mlernately treated are the philosophical
and psychological backgrounds of Catholic
and public school disciplinar}- methods and
the concepts set forth by four representative
experts in the field of guidance. There are
tables showing the results of an opinion
sur\ey of Catholic educators, as well as a
complete bibliography.
EDUCATIO.V AND POLITICAL POWER (Center
for .Applied Research in Education, New
York, 113 pp.) by Rev. John E. U^nlsh
CSC '45.
Former head of the education department
and now a vice-president of the University,
Fr. Walsh has added an unusual but particularly
appropriate volume to the Librar\'
of Education in progress. George Shuster
writes in the foreword, "This book deals
with one of the most important and difficult
of educational problems."
DR. JOHN C. KELLEHER '40 and wife Rose Mary arc shown with their nine children
before John was named to Sports Illustrated's Silver Jubilee All-America. The
Layden-era kicking ace is now a Toledo plastic surgeon. (See story on page II.)
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Notre Dame Alumnus, Year End, 1964