Word: fitzgeralded
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...appeared on the White House lawn. There was to be a formal dinner for Dutch Prime Minister loop den Uyl. That too is in the finest crisis tradition. Uniforms, charts and black coffee gave way to starched white shirts, champagne and music. Life goes on. Where was F. Scott Fitzgerald...
...with power plants, and with potable water in Saigon," Smithies wrote." ...While it is impossible to make an accurate inventory of the changes in the infrastructure during the war, the impression is inescapable that the plusses greatly outweigh the minuses." It was the kind of report that led Frances Fitzgerald '62 to call AID economics "perhaps the ultimate expression of American hubris...
...that had so long been suppressed during the English occupation. But while these earlier poets--Yeats especially--had helped create a profoundly nationalistic poetry for Irish writers, Clarke was the first to complete the task: he brought ancient Irish mythological themes to life in the same exciting way Robert Fitzgerald has brought the Iliad to modern English readers...
...sort of appeal can still work. After all, you do hear a lot of people clapping and singing along on the album, albeit a bit slow to respond to Seeger's signals and a little self-consciously. But the whole affair brings to mind that heart-rending scene in Fitzgerald's Gatsby, when Nick ventures that perhaps he shouldn't get his hopes up, that it's been years since Daisy loved him. "Can't recapture the past?" Gatsby responds. "Why, of course...
...misses the boat altogether. If it had only done as sensitive a translating job as The Day of the Locust has done, it might have been at least a decent, if not well-liked, movie, it closes in on all the wrong things, and gets at nothing that Fitzgerald did. Only one performance really works and that is Sam Waterston's sensitive and physically correct Nick. He, not Redford, is "better than the whole damn bunch of them...