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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...
...novel. Chambers is a sardonic son of a bitch with no past to speak of, and no future worth mentioning. On his way to the city, Chambers drops off at a roadside diner to scam a meal off the owner. The owner is a sleazy, belching Horatio Algier-type from Greece named Nick Papadakis. Chambers wants nothing to do with him until suddenly he spots Papadakis's wife, Cora. As Cain wrote...
...prayer -his hue turn magenta, his hands like homing larks fluttering to his mouth-and the mean joy of discovering his hidden base motives and critical intent. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for referring to Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower because it was instantly recognized that Carter thought Humphrey a windbag. David Hartman of Good Morning America left little doubt about his feelings for a sponsor when he announced: "We'll be right back after this word from General Fools." At a conference in Berlin in 1954, France...
...bored, 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...
...than any of its parts. It testifies to his fame. That is what he craved, after all. And he craved fame in a world where such cravings were honorable. Some say that he traded for fame with the gods, exchanging a brief life for a long thereafter. Hamlet tells Horatio that Alexander's fame came to nothing: "To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he finds it stopping a bunghole?" Still, his fame has come this far. His tomb was on display for 700 years...