Word: horatios
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...poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than the domestic wrangling and political pettifogging that make up most of the film. Producer Hal Wallis thriftily restages the battle of Cadiz largely by using footage from some old swashbuckler like Captain Horatio Hornblower. Lord Nelson meets his end during a bombardment of old film clips...
WEDNESDAY: Little Caesar. (1950). Horatio Alger story of the Syndicate with Edward G. Robinson as the rags-to-offers-you-can't-refuse hero...
SILAS SNOBDEN'S OFFICE BOY by HORATIO ALGER JR. 240 pages. Doubleday...
...Holy Horatio Alger! Of all the embarrassing national memories to bring up in 1973. This little prince of prissiness, this walking morality play on behalf of hanging tight and doing somebody else's thing. "Duty required me to do as I did." The cry, pure as the adolescent uttering it, sounds across the years-from 1889, to be exact-measuring by sheer alienation the distance of America present from America past...
...true"; "I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul," etc.) embarrass. Still, hardly anybody can live on irony and neostoicism for long. Even against what seems to be common sense, it is essential to believe in the possibilities of individual endeavor. There, suddenly, stands Jonathan Livingston Seagull, an Horatio Alger in feathers...