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...number of Third World freshmen has increased, the fact that Dean Moses considers supportive activities for Third World students separatist, and the fact that Dean Moses, in his infinite wisdom, arbitrarily decides which special interest groups are separatist and which are not should be her main concern. Ari Q. Fitzgerald...
...example, after nearly two generations of ethnic subordination by Boston's WASP elites, the political empowerment of Irish-Americans dictated Irish ethnic-bloc voting for Boston's first Irish mayor--Hugh O'Brien in 1884--who was followed by other Irishmen like Patrick Collins and John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. But this Irish breakthrough to political parity did not exclude WASPs from the mayorality of Boston. The reason for this is that the inclusive pluralism of American political culture--a democratic pluralism that encourages inter-ethnic power sharing--militating against political exclusivism and ethnic-oligarchy tendencies. So that in 1917 "Honey...
...notebooks from the decade, catches Wilson at this turning point. Hardworking and hard-drinking, the critic had lived like the free-spirited artists he wrote about. But by 1940 he was suffering from more than a hangover. The early death of his friend from Princeton days, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an intimation of mortality. His third marriage, to Novelist Mary McCarthy, was headed toward certain divorce, and his growing isolationism was undermining his stature as a serious commentator on his times...
They invented the summer season on the Riviera. The guest list at their 14-room Villa America near Antibes included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the Murphys as models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. They were the subjects of Calvin Tomkins' 1971 bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge...
...poignant detail the twin tragedies that shattered their European idyl: the death of the Murphys' sons, Baoth in 1935 of a sudden attack of meningitis and Patrick in 1937 after a long fight with tuberculosis, each within months of his 16th birthday. "The golden bowl is broken indeed," Fitzgerald consoled his friends. "But it was golden; nothing can ever take those boys away from...