Word: algerisms
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...Cambridge-to-Washington shuttle, becoming one of the first of a long line of academics to serve as White House sages. While he personally stroked F.D.R.'s liberalism, he dispatched his best and brightest students, his "happy hot dogs," like Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss, to mold the New Deal bureaucracy...
...passion of this new embrace? The shuttle had become a kind of technological Rocky, the bum who perseveres to the end, the underdog who finally wins. Columbia's success, explained Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "ties in with so many of our cultural themes. It's Horatio Alger. It's The Little Engine That Could...
Wallace's career might have provided a model for one of his magazine's profiles, which have always favored Horatio Alger sagas of the onward and the upward. His father was a Presbyterian minister who became president of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where DeWitt was born...
...quarter finals Desaulniers, despite a fine performance, lost to second-ranked American amateur Mark Alger...
...does not take vacations or qualify for pensions-and does not leave Coca-Cola cans rattling around inside the products it has helped assemble. Its "up time" on the job averages around 95% (the figure for the average blue-collar worker is about 75%). In addition to its Horatio Alger work habits, it is immune to government and union regulations on heat, fumes, noise, radiation and other safety hazards. The robot has no affections or passions. If you prick it, it does not bleed. If you poison it, it does...