Word: alger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alger Hiss's conviction for perjury--which at the time Ellsberg believed was justified--was another factor making him "more open to the government account of the Cold War, more skeptical of the radicals," he says. Hiss was a "pillar of the establishment who had lied." A few weeks later, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) had embarked on his campaign to get so called reds and liberals out of office...
...Alger Hiss returned last night to his alma mater, the Law School, to talk about the McCarthy are, but somehow the focus of the evening kept coming back to Richard Nixon...
...other psychobiographies, on a turn-of-the-century Viennese anti-Semite and on Lee Harvey Oswald. In preparing his Nixonalysis, Abrahamsen interviewed dozens of people, including several Nixon relatives (but no members of his immediate family), onetime Colleagues Robert Finch and Roy Cohn, Watergate Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, and Alger Hiss...
HOLLYWOOD OF THE 1930s is a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty, and Monroe Stahr, boy 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...
Juvenile delinquents have been with us for a long time. Horatio Alger romanticized them in books like Ragged Dick, written nearly one hundred years ago. And Henry James, looking at Boston in 1904, complained of "School-bullies who hustle and pummel some studious little boy." To James, the presence of these street urchins was a sure sign that his beloved Boston was on the way down. Today the school-bullies are still a problem, but the method of dealing with them--at least in Massachusetts--has undergone radical change. Ever since the last Massachusetts training school closed...