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SF Weekly (blog)
Ensemble Parallèle's The Great Gatsby: A Newly Accessible Opera About Striving ...
SF Weekly (blog)
The American dream has been celebrated in many forms throughout the years, but probably none are more significant than F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The story represents the best of this country: the amours of a once working ...

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The American dream versus the Korean dream
The Korea Herald
In the 20th century, great American writers continued to warn about the distortion of the fresh, original American dream of the Founding Fathers. In “The Great Gatsby,” for example, F. Scott Fitzgerald poignantly mocked Franklin's nave optimism through ...

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New York Times
Sharing a Heritage With a New Knicks Star
New York Times
“All the Asian-American guys want to be Jeremy Lin,” she said. “And all the Asian-American girls want to marry him.” More than 50 people, almost all of them Christians and the children of Asian immigrants, gathered to cheer for Jeremy Lin, ...

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An American Story: William John Howey
Blogcritics.org (blog)
Howey was a member of America's most powerful socioeconomic strata; he engaged presidents as easily as day laborers and was truly a man for all seasons; a Gatsby-like self-made multimillionaire minus the pesky self-defeating emotional hangups.


 
Contactmusic.com
'The Great Gatbsy' To Hit UK Stages In Three Adaptations
Huffington Post
The tale of the wealthy Jay Gatsby pining for the love of the socialite Daisy has long stood as a definitive portrait of the ever-decaying American dream. It seems that the British public (and the Australian director, Luhrmann), are just as drawn to ...
The Great Gatsby inspires new UK stage productionsBanmoco.co.uk

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Korea Times
'Great Gatsby Curve'
Korea Times
Americans should entertain the option of public financing of campaigns. Democracy is a one-man-one-vote system unlike a one-dollar-one-vote system the richest subtly engineer it to be. The demise of the American Dream epitomized by dynamic upward ...

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Boyd Tonkin: A classic tale of greed that's on the money for our times
The Independent
Towards the end of Scott Fitzgerald's novel, narrator Nick Carraway wakes up from dreams of the revelry that has passed to hear a "material car" in the driveway of his dead neighbour Jay Gatsby's house. "I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final ...