Word: fitzgerald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRANCES FITZGERALD, writer (Fire in the Lake): Barry Commoner, Ralph Nader and Cesar Chavez are possibilities. Nader and Chavez are leaders on a grand scale. Their thinking is original and they have the ability to make things happen. It is characteristic of American society today that the antiwar movement, women's movement, antinukes have a collective leadership...
...second with 7.72 millionaires per 1,000, while North Dakota, with its sprawling farms and ranches, is third with 6.9. The states with the lowest concentrations of seven-figure citizens: Arkansas, with .34 millionaires per 1,000, and Wyoming, where the ratio is just .19. Nonetheless, to reverse Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum, just about everywhere the rich are becoming less and less distinguishable from everyone else...
...college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese...
...John Fitzgerald Kennedy said in 1961 that we should ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country. I'd like to paraphrase that, and tell you to ask what you can do for your city," Holway said...
...within a year was producing, directing and writing his own shows, aspiring, he said, "to bring Broadway to America via the television set." For twelve years at NBC and three at CBS, he pursued this goal, creating small-screen renditions of works by Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Dostoevsky and introducing original dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and the half a dozen other major playwrights Coe discovered. When he died, Coe was working on a two-hour TV version of The Miracle Worker, one of his biggest Broadway hits...