America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

" Of O'Hara Hemingway once said cruelly "Someone should take up a collection to send John O'Hara to Yale. According to Gill Yale was unwilling to award the honor because O'Hara "asked for it. Canby on the subject of Peyton Place.

". He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue.