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...could not be. More could it be his Hell, his dreams as phantoms, his mansion their graveyard. Embalmed in midsummer mists, the place even looked something of a mirage: shimmering on Saturday evenings with wealth and youth and beauty, and so heavy, up close, with the heat and sweat of life; dream and disillusionment ineffably caught in that blinking crystal of green at the end of Daisy's pier...
...however, the heat and sweat that was remembered in his legend, but the wealth and youth and beauty. If West Egg for Gatsby had been a sort of haunted place, it had to look much more like paradise to most who had not lived there. And even more in the Depression that followed so close upon his death could it offer the fascination of the forbidden. If men could not have it and men could much less forget it, then it could still be had in dream and fantasy. In a grandeur of escapism might Gatsby's dream be borne...
Most "love-a-ly" of all to devotees and onlookers of the British-born pastime, the sixth annual Ivy League Rugby Tournament at Providence over the weekend found itself a fitting, overflowingly generous sponsor--Tuborg Breweries. There were good quantities of blood and sweat, but mostly there was beer...
...revolver and a carbine rested ominously on a table. No less dramatic was the opening statement by Prosecuting Attorney Richard A. Sprague: "We will show how a family named Yablonski was murdered. The defendant here is the man who used the money from the United Mine Workers, from the sweat and blood of the miners of America, to pay for these murders. We will go step by step up the ladder until we get to the top, to this defendant, sitting in this courtroom...
...freewheeling in the early days," says a onetime NASA engineer. "We made design changes right on the pad and let the home office know about it later. Anything to get the bird away. Now it's all so stylized. It used to be shirtsleeves and sweat. Now it's gray flannel...