Word: algerism
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...rest of the nation. It is a revolution which, although still far from overthrowing segregation, amounts to the biggest, most hopeful change in Negro history since Abraham Lincoln, just 90 years ago, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Says Negro Publisher (Ebony, Jet) John H. Johnson: "Every Negro is a Horatio Alger . . . His trek up from slavery is the greatest success story the world has ever known...
...views his rise as an academic Horatio Alger with slight misgiving. "I've had to rewrite most of the lectures," he says. "In that cold and austere Graeco--Roman setting you stand up in your toga and pontificate. You can't be intimate in the Mohavi Desert...
Naturally, the reason for it all is the life of an impresario, director and producer, Sol Hurok. A penniless Russian immigrant, he came to America in 1910, and in ten years became the greatest showman of the age. Albeit the story is the well worn, Horatio Alger type, sensitive acting, and the interludes of line music make it a completely new experience. Even the inevitable matrimonial difficulties are touching...
...studies and a wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...
...fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss...