Word: horatio
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...Soldiers Field basepaths never settled. And when time and the fates finally called a halt to this nine-inning diamond joust, 28 hits had fallen, 20 runs had scored, and Harvard had beaten Penn yesterday, 11-9, with a final inning choreographed by Jerome Robbins and written by Horatio Alger...
...adequate and even interesting movie, but not a great one--about what you'd expect from something filmed on location in Hoboken. It could have been a lot worse (one love scene in a purplish rainstorm demonstrated a potential for sappy disaster), and a writer without a Horatio Alger complex could have made the movie better. "We walked in a fine line" between fairy tale and fact, remarks Irving. As Karl Wallenda would say, if he could, that can be dangerous...
...final hours, the tale turns to Alex Haley's career, it also becomes an irresistible American success story. Taken as a whole, Roots 11 is a compendium of pop cul ture: it mixes elements of Gone With the Wind, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, March of Time newsreels, Horatio Alger sto ries and even Fiddler on the Roof...
...more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class ... the Protestant virtues no longer excite enthusiasm ... The happy hooker stands in place of Horatio Alger as the prototype of personal success...
...Kaplan success story is a combination of Horatio Alger hype and pure chutzpah. He grew up in Brooklyn, son of a plumbing contractor and a housewife. At James Madison High School, he became enamored to teaching, and recalls now that he used to bribe his stickball buddies to listen to him practice teaching. But while he was enrolled at City College of New York, the tables began to turn...