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Fitzgerald, as Latham painstakingly documents, was always fascinated by the film and the new industry it had created in America. Representatives of the movie world appear as characters in Tender is the Night (1934), many short stories, and of course at the center of The Last Tycoon, the Hollywood novel Fitzgerald was working on when he died. Latham mines all these works for relevant material-including some passages Edmund Wilson left out of the unfinished Tycoon manuscript he edited after Fitzgerald's death and an early unpublished draft of Tender . in which the novel's central figure was a movie...
...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...
...getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which can now be found in every bookstore. In the past year, Fitzgerald's Hollywood works, Tycoon and The Pat Hobby Stories, have been published in paperback for the first time. So read them, and then take another look at Tender is the Night , his best novel. And, for that matter, you could do a lot worse things with your time than reading the collected stories (among them "Crazy Sundays," from which Latham took his title) and rereading Gatsby and attempting The Beautiful and Damned , which no one ever looks...
...course, most swimming experts would not be impressed to hear Krause has won the Wyman Trophy a second time at lowly Harvard. Only six years ago, at the tender age of 15. Krause emerged from the pool at Manmee, Ohio after swimming the mile faster than any other human being before him. On other occasions he set three American records...
...maybe acrobatics. Unless genetic potential is tapped by the environment, it will not develop: kittens prevented from walking will not learn normal form and depth perception. Says Geneticist Joshua Lederberg: "There is no gene that can ensure the ideal development of a child's brain without reference to tender care and inspired teaching...