Word: hoffer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Axel Hoffer '57, of Adams House and Providence has been awarded the John A. Walz Jr. Prize of $25 for the best General Examination in German Literature...
...Eric Hoffer is a pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...
Four years ago Hoffer published The True Believer, an eloquent analysis of the nature of modern mass movements that won critical respect and a considerable following of readers. His new book turns from social to strictly individual themes, and offers, in a series of aphorisms, the insights gained during a hard, roving life...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...
Though some of Philosopher Hoffer's aphorisms are fatuous, The Passionate State of Mind demonstrates again his knack for neat, 17th century-style brooding on 20th century problems. Samples...