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...wonder, is at her service. Stahr's business is making pictures, transmuting the dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success and illusion may be wedded, but what Stahr learns finally is that both are easily wrecked...
...lunch break came near noon. Downstairs, the ladies of the local nondenominational church were collecting $1.50 a plate at a spread featuring baked beans, meat pie, green bean and onion casserole, goulash, breads and cake. Then the meeting reconvened...
...third time this winter, Harvard triumphed in front of a boob-tube audience. For the first time ever, Bill Cleary won his 100th game as Crimson mentor (plus a cake to go), and Tim Taylor returned to Cambridge as Yale's new hockey coach and did as well as Yale's old hockey coach...
...continues the next morning, when children wake to find chestnuts under their pillows. Because the Chinese word for "chestnuts" sounds similar to the word for "fame," eating the nuts is believed to bring a noteworthy career. The children also receive a plate containing oranges to keep the family together, cake to bring them happiness, and candy to bring them a sweet life. Parents also give their children money in red envelopes, which they are allowed to gamble or spend as they like on New Year...
...backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz '75 for $25; a doubles tennis match against violinist Sheldon Rotenburg and horn player Ralph Pottle...