Word: algerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whittaker Chambers spent his life searching for final answers. Spurred by "the need for truth" and "the fear of error," his search carried him into what Albert Camus called "those waterless deserts where thought reaches its confines." After the glaring publicity of the Alger Hiss trial and the 1952 publication of his own confessional autobiography Witness, Chambers withdrew to the seclusion of his Maryland farm. Often his first waking thought was, "Must I live through another day?" This posthumous book, made up of diary excerpts, letters, extended reflections on himself and his time, is the fruit of those years. Edited...
Meanwhile the young conservative stalwarts suffered. Of those who were beaten, the most prominent (Alger and Foreman of Texas, Snyder of Kentucky, St. George of New York) were among the most conservative...
Dallas business leaders rallied around former Democratic Mayor EarleCabell, helped throw out five-term Republican Bruce Alger, a right-winger who had opposed federal aid projects for his area, was rated in a poll of his fellow Congressmen the least effective Republican in the House...
After a week of campaigning, Algeria's voters were urged to flock to the polls to vote for one unexciting 138-man list of carefully selected candidates for the National Assembly. The pro-government newspaper Alger Republicain tried to reply to "those who regret that our country is not the scene of electoral battles as are practiced elsewhere" by lamely explaining that a "multiplicity of parties and programs is not necessarily synonymous with real democracy...
...Horatio Alger could do no better by any of his heroes...