Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairytales die hard. "Jacob's Ladder," a Pygmalion story and one of the most tender in the book, tells of a rich, rather bored man who makes the sister of a murderess a film star. She offers him her affection but he rejects it until, separated by her success, he wants her; by then, of course, it is too late...
Even assuming Fitzgerald's personal pride came back with the return of his income, his distaste for screenwriting work, combined with a long string of personal failures, must have undercut his sense of success. From his early fight with producer Joe Mankiewicz, who re-wrote his script for The Three Comrades when Fitzgerald screamed that the film would flop, to his embarassing hospitalization after a drinking bout on the Dartmouth set of Winter Carnival, Fitzgerald's years in Hollywood forced him to abandon his dream of America's materialistic ideal. He simply could not write his best and make...
PERHAPS because of the greater screen-writing success of the other writers and the lesser body of critical writings preceding him here, Dardis writes more to the point after closing the Fitzgerald section of his book. His description of Stanley Rose, the "flamboyant, self-styled con man," who ran a book shop frequented by many of the writers and who himself finally went straight, becoming a literary agent, is almost satisfying. And for a further depiction of the Hollywood scene, Dardis is wise enough to rely on Faulkner's observations rather than his own patchy reporting...
...first half was all Harvard, the third quarter a standoff and the final period a death spiral for the tiring Crimson. After an opening 30 minutes of intermittent success in which Jim Kubacki put two touchdowns on the board, the Harvard offense slowed to a crawl with nothing but a Mike Lynch 28-yard field goal in the third quarter, and came to a dead stop in the fourth...
Together the two states command 66 electoral votes, about one-quarter of the total Carter needs for success on election...