Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jay Berman...
...didn't get the girl pregnant. Had that happened, the summer might have been so traumatic I'd have been inspired to write a book about it called The Only Thing I've Done Wrong. It didn't happen to me, but it may have happened to John Jay Osborne Jr. '67. Whether it did or not, Osborne wrote a novel based on that scenario of love and trauma and he called it, well, you can guess...
...campaign is the inspiration of two 27-year-old Washington public relations men, Jay Smith and Mark Harroff, who met while working for the Republican National Committee. They effectively played the college circuit themselves during President Nixon's 1972 campaign-and irritated some of the President's men by admitting Administration mistakes. When they took on Westinghouse as a client, they had no trouble selling the company the idea of campus tours, this time using trained specialists to debate the foes of nuclear power. Operating with a small portion of the $1 million Westinghouse has earmarked for nuclear...
Stahr is not simply another Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald was far older when he wrote The Last Tycoon, and the romantic fervor which defined Gatsby has been replaced in Stahr by a "mixture of common sense, wise sensibility, theatrical ingenuity, and a certain half-naive conception of the common weal." A paternalistic employer of the old school, Stahr, like his literary forerunner, is condemned to repeat the past in an age which values only the present moment. In contrast to Gatsby, however, his nemesis is not the carelessness of the very rich but the more modern venality of American capitalism...
...unfair retribution because only one of them is on the receiving end. Mikey and Nicky should have been a movie about friend ship and betrayal and a kind of cosmic, comic stalemate. Its own helpless indulgence is not just the movie's undoing. It becomes, instead, its subject. Jay Cocks...