Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article about Farmer North is certainly a Horatio Alger story, but with subsidies and soil bank, are we sure he didn't have a helping hand from a rich relative-namely, Uncle...
Dore Schary, onetime production boss of MGM, who is back in movies as an independent writer-producer, has translated this repulsive masterpiece into a snappy, sexy, phony little Horatio Alger story. The book told the story of a young reporter who, while writing the agony column for a New York newspaper, came to feel that he was being stretched upon the cross of the world's suffering. He goes insane and is murdered by one of the suffering souls he is trying to save. And what does it all mean? That nobody in his right mind can love...
...perhaps the principal moral theme is the story of Miss Bacall. The Puritanical bent, the Horatio Alger ambition of these three women is given a philosophic basis in Miss Bacall's history. The denouement of her experience can only be classified as Calvinistic: despite all our efforts, we can only obtain Paradise through Grace...
...Alger Hiss is a third cousin...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...