Those We Lost: recent Irish-American passings

The Times obituary quoted a 1972 column in which O’Connor said, “A reviewer is not, or at least shouldn’t be, in the game of picking hits and flops.” It is a critic’s job, O’Connor said, to measure quality, not popularity. And between the two, “no correlation has yet been convincingly established.”

O’Connor is survived by his partner, Seymour Barofsky, and two brothers, William and Joseph.

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