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...sport. Jay Gatsby used to call everyone an old sport, including the son-of-a-bitch Tom Buchanan, who did not like it. Fitzgerald borrowed the term from a bootlegger friend, Max Gerlach, who shot himself in 1939. Who could blame him? It's terrible to be an old sport, a creaky, achy, fatty over-the-hill athlete--even when one was a fair athlete at best--and to watch those long-muscled, wrinkle-free kids on TV, and to be borne back ceaselessly into the past...
...always teach The Great Gatsby just after the end of summer, when the Long Island light has lowered to copper streaks, the "inessential houses," as Fitzgerald called them, have been closed and boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
...kids on TV was their full-tilt surefootedness. "It was awesome! I was totally psyched!" Sports are what happens years ago, except for the attitude they engender--that one may live in a perpetual state of happy expectation, even at an age when victory is out of the question. Fitzgerald said, "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter...
...Crimson defense stopped Lafayette on the next possession. Junior defensive tackle Ryan Fitzgerald stopped sophomore running back Bill Stocker on second-and-8 and then junior cornerback Andy Fried broke up a pass on third down to force a Lafayette punt to the Harvard 41-yard line...
Harvard forced a Lafayette three-and-out on the next drive on the strength of a sack by senior defensive tackle R.D. Kern, as well as a Fitzgerald stop of Ritchie for a gain of just one on third...