Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boylston professorship which Heaney will vacate is one of the University's oldest and most distinguished chairs. The position was first occupied by John Quincy Adams in the early 1800s, and was later held by poets Archibald MacLeish and Robert Fitzgerald...
...last week's good news traveled in a sort of endless loop around the stock price, which remained locked at about $130. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked, there are no second acts in American lives, they are even rarer in American business recoveries. Act One, of course, will be familiar to most of our audience from the recent performance of AT&T: fire nearly everyone in sight. It's Act Two--creating sustainable, profitable growth--that seems to be the tricky part. Companies such as K Mart have performed brilliantly in the Sweeney Todd role, slicing overhead...
...story and manipulates action. The certitude of Dickens or Tolstoy, who peopled their worlds like gods, is denied to 20th century writers who must cope with ironies and layers of deconstruction (one strategy is to distance the reader from the hero and keep him a mystery, as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in The Great Gatsby). So pity Mona Simpson, a talented young novelist (Anywhere but Here) whose new book, A Regular Guy (Knopf; 372 pages; $25), begins with this sentence: "He was a man too busy to flush toilets." Does any superman survive that? It's not that this...
Other recipients include University of Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel, Ohio State linebacker Greg Bellisari, Penn State quarterback Wally Richardson and University of Texas right end Pat Fitzgerald...
...turns/ driven time and again off course, once he had plundered/ the hallowed halls of Troy." That man, of course, is Odysseus, the epic hero of all that is to follow, and in calling him "the man of twists and turns" Fagles signals his commitment to economical, concrete descriptions. Fitzgerald's translation introduces Odysseus as "that man skilled in all ways of contending." Some readers may prefer Fitzgerald's rendering, of course, but the contrast shows clearly the straightforward method Fagles pursues...