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Perhaps, as Sahil Mahtani tells us (“The Eyes of Doctor Fitzgerald,” comment, Apr. 25), we do live in an age of restless materialism and social anomie. Perhaps, though the comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read...
...city when they themselves have never been to a small town. (Nantucket does not count.) Liberals may jostle, hoping to win back the heartland vote with a hypothetical Messianic, charismatic Democrat. But for many land-locked liberals like myself, it is still heartland conservatives who are more in touch with the sentiments of most Americans—even if they are not the people who would be best in office. I am constantly amazed by Harvard students’ ignorance of parts of the U.S. that aren’t “privileged” enough...
...overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground lab rather than a staging ground for Armageddon...
...you’ve only recently gotten engaged. Did you guys lose touch between then...
...Long pause] I don’t know. I guess that’d be a good question for any graduating student. I guess I’m totally open to it, and my friends will know how to get in touch with...