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Here's how to celebrate The Great Gatsby's centennial in NYC this week
The evening performance of The Great Gatsby on Thursday, April 10 will include a cast toast the milestone event and an ...
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What was Manhattan like in the Roaring Twenties? See for yourself
It’s been a century since The Great Gatsby was first published, shining a light on extravagant New York lifestyles in an era that went down in history as the ‘Roaring Twenties’. It was the ...
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100 years later, ‘The Great Gatsby’ still speaks to the troubled dream of America
Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They’re both timebound ...
National Catholic Register3h
Why Gatsby’s ‘Dead Dream’ Still Haunts America 100 Years Later
COMMENTARY: The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a keen appreciation of the human heart’s need for the ...
Vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s
Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...
Black Monday to the COVID crash: Worst days in the history of the US stock market
The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression. This was the second day of the big drop, known as "Black Tuesday," which ...
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Op-Ed: The Great Gatsby and the American Dream 100 Years Later
American Dream: an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity” — definition by the ...