Word: horatios
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...HUBERT ("Horatio") HUMPHREY a.k.a. HHH, pinch-hitting veteran: The 'old man' of the club; in his fourth major league season; long ball threat although has never come through in the clutch; once on bases loves to run, although his legs went three seasons ago; once described as "deceptively slow;" could appear in the line-up at any time...
Scholars know Simon Forman as the man who attended-and made notes on -four of Shakespeare's plays performed during the dramatist's lifetime. Historian A.L. Rowse, 72, knows Forman as something more: an extravagant conflation of Horatio Alger and Doctor Faustus whose claim to fame lies buried in a "vast mass" of barely decipherable manuscripts. Having burrowed through this trove of papers, Rowse now announces that Forman "has exposed himself as no one has done, not even Pepys or Boswell or Rousseau, and with more naive candor and ingenuous truthfulness than a Henry Miller...
...Horatio Algers of the developing world are South Korea and Taiwan. Until the end of World War II, both countries were exploited colonies of Japan; they lacked natural resources and had almost no industrial base. Moreover, South Korea suffered a devastating war between 1950 and 1953, while Taiwan was shaken by the Communist takeover of the Chinese mainland and the subsequent arrival of 2 million of Chiang Kai-shek's followers...
...Peabody's retrospect on 19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...
...like sitting in a cheaply constructed apartment and hearing snatches of neighbors' conversations or the eruptions from their TV sets. The form of the book constantly threatens to become the very chaos it is criticizing. But it holds. If JR were simply a literal send-up of Horatio Alger stories, Gaddis' ironies would be heavy and obvious. But his conception is pure and highly original. The dung-beetle logic of the young JR, the rationalizations of the go-getters and the stifled rage of the gotten echo long after the last line of this profoundly indignant novel...