Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the jazzed arteries had begun to calcify, and the bravely broken hearts began to miss a beat, Fitzgerald slowed down too. Between The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), Fitzgerald published no novels. For the last three years he lived in Hollywood, tranquilly, soberly, almost clinically (friends claim he had not had a drink for years), but also somewhat like the last passenger pigeon in the Cincinnati...
...could see with his own eyes-the campus, the undergraduate clubhouse, the resorts, the hotels, the boudoirs, the country clubs, the North Shore of Long Island. Then, as he and the lost generation ran down together, he tried and almost succeeded in recapturing its final psychopathic spasms in Europe (Tender Is the Night...
...That also includes Miss Lamarr who strolls placidly through the role of a Soviet streetcar motorman intent on the cause. Scripters Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer's picture of bungling and dawdling inside the Soviet is a lot less witty, and less tender than Greta Garbo's memorable film Ninotchka. But their slapstick commentary is a relief from the realities of headlines...
...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
Hooton declares that inherited temperamental differences in animals are admitted by most scientists, but that when they stop over the threshold to humanity, these tender-minded, idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out of the window...