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State Rep. Kevin W. Fitzgerald's (D-Mission Hill/Jamaica) office was instrumental in coordinating Harvard's resources and the Parker Hill Council's concerns, and in raising donations for the poor in conjunction with other drives in the neighborhood...
...antiterrorist patrols by police and the elite Special Air Service. In an attempt to lure the Unionists back into the Assembly, Prior also invited four of Northern Ireland's political parties to talks on security. Meanwhile, in a radio interview, the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic, Garret Fitzgerald, a Catholic, seemed close to tears as he denounced the murders at the Elim church as a "sacrilegious act of blasphemy...
...newsstand copies sold so quickly that the staff frenziedly retrieved what they could from the haberdashers. Three years later, Esquire had a profitable circulation of 440,000 and was publishing works that are still remembered, including Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up. Other magazines that competed for big-name writers in those days are gone: the original Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty. But Esquire, though it has undergone a series of shifts that have made it seem the magazine of a thousand faces, has endured...
Unfortunately, the picture he paints of this life embarrassingly resembles a Fairfield Porter or F. Scott Fitzgerald universe, where every man had a yacht and every girl a debutante ball. Buckley says of his personal estate, "We desired a house by the sea and didn't see any particular reason why, if the whole Southern tier of Connecticut squats down on the sea, why we shouldn't be among those who squatted down in that part of Connecticut...
...wider compulsions of experimentation and free expression, almost a motor reflex to lurch in new directions. In the years immediately following World War I, Gertrude Stein was offering as much challenge as pity when she branded Hemingway and his contemporaries as the "lost generation." Hemingway took to the bullring, Fitzgerald to the dance floor, where much of his nation joined him. Like Gatsby, most people "believed in the green light" at the end of the dock, despite the disillusionment and damnation around them...