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Just like Scott Fitzgerald, who attended Princeton more than half a century ago, Ray Ollwerther, Princeton '71, wouldn't have gone to Yale in the first place. By last November, three years of losing to the Elis in football had further embittered him-Yalies are damn poor winners, you understand-and with another important Big Three clash imminent, Ray decided that the Princeton community needed inspiration...
...comforting, in these days when all the old values are crumbling, that institutional hate as Scott Fitzgerald knew it still beats in some breasts. And not just at Princeton, either...
...fact that Yale men "all wear big blue sweaters and smoke pipes" was sufficient to foster Fitzgerald's dislike for the institution, and no one at Princeton appears to have come up with any more solid reason than that since 1915. Yale feels inferior to both Harvard and Princeton, Dartmouth feels inferior to Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and everyone entirely dislikes Pennsylvania. Institutional hate keeps the alumni going. It gives one something to do in New Haven...
...drawbacks. Some of the writing is contrived, bland or pedantic. Latham has a tendency to point too energetically at the irony of each incident; he also has a predilection for Time-ese ("Zelda was teaching Scott lessons about tragedy which Aristotle had left out.") For someone unfamiliar with Fitzgerald's novels, the analysis here may be too sketchy; in any case, it is occasionally banal (The rape of Nicole by her father in Tender is seen as a symbol of capitalism...
...devotee like myself-I've spent what seems like the better part of the past eighteen months reading and rereading Fitzgerald and his biographers- Crazy Sundays offers quite a few incisive footnotes, as well as the gold mine of new screenplay material. But, if you know little about Fitzgerald, it would be wiser to start with Arthur Mizener's fine standard biography. The Far Side of Paradise ; then take a look at the underwritten but magnificently researched Zelda . Better yet, take advantage of the Fitzgerald revival by getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which...