Word: fitzgerald
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...Irish physicist George FitzGerald and the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz were the first to suggest that bodies moving through the ether would contract and that clocks would slow. This shrinking and slowing would be such that everyone would measure the same speed for light no matter how they were moving with respect to the ether, which FitzGerald and Lorentz regarded as a real substance...
Relativism brought the underground man into his own--in Europe, with Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Aichinger, Sartre, Mann and Pirandello; in America with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ellison, Capote and Salinger. The antihero, too, searched for unified meaning, but the narrative that held him was all about divisions, schisms and self-inspection. He sought to be by himself, like a god. In Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Richard Wright's The Outsider, protagonists become serial killers out of the desire to be alone...
...culture, make everyone see in a new way, is dead. What's true of literature is true of all the arts now: there are readers of J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, there are Michael Crichton's readers, and the twain don't meet. Except, possibly, theoretically in cyberspace. F. Scott Fitzgerald had it right: "Culture follows money." And the money--perhaps even the creative zeal--is now in the new media. A radically reshaped culture is beginning to be created there. We can already begin to see what the generation born with a TV remote in its hand...
...Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason L. Freidenfelds Brian R. Friedman Virginia S. Fuller David J. Fusco Raefer C. Gabriel Julio V. Gambuto Lauren R. Garsten John W. Geary Kata Gellen Michael...
...talented and experienced junior class, Yale has attempted to fill the shoes of two-time Ivy League Player of the Year, Rosie Wustrack, who graduated last year. Junior middle blocker Colette FitzGerald leads the Bulldogs with 3.66 kills per game, and sophomore outside hitter Candace Green has averaged 3.08 kills per game this season...