Word: algerisms
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...disappointed to note a tinge of snobbery in your recent article on Marshal Tito. I believe that his rise from the son of a poor peasant to the Communist President of Yugoslavia is a story in many ways paralleling the traditional American Horatio Alger legend . . . I, therefore, rue the day when we look down upon a man for being, not a Communist dictator, but "The Peasant...
Former State Department Official Alger Hiss, 50, released last November after serving 44 months for perjury in denying that he had passed secret Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was handed a summons by a Manhattan cop. The charge, followed by a plea of guilty: playing catch in a restricted area of Washington Square Park with son Tony, 13, and another lad. Penalty: a $3 fine...
...Lynn has clearly made a shrewd choice in selection of subject matter. Instead of criticizing literary style alone, he has written a work filled with perceptive sociological insights into turn-of-the-century American society. Using the well-known Horatio Alger story as a touchstone common to five novelists, Lynn has traced the impact of the success myth upon each artist and has indirectly produced a profound commentory on the fiercely competitive Big Business era. The summarization of an age through its literature is dangerous history; but here it proves very effective. Through skillful blending of the novelists own beliefs...
...neurotic, sickly, Harvard man, Robert Herrick is typical in his inability to escape the myth. Although he consciously sought to replace Alger with an alternative that would prove an equally compelling vision, he could not succeed. His answer was the Professional Man; he wanted his hero to renounce all ease and luxury, to define success in terms of his job rather than his salary. But as Lynn observes, Herrick wrote a series of fiascos because his Professional Men could not avoid, even in their north woods hideouts, striving to become Alger heroes...
Times changed for the better during the 1850's, when the Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst...