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...Terry didn't quit, and in a kind of Horatio Alger sports story (or is it Chip Hilton?), he went on to become one of the lynchpins of the fencing team's new success. He was also elected next year's captain on Monday, by a unanimous vote of his teammates...
There is, of course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
...copies. Disarmingly folksy, the book takes Oral upward from his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much"), on a Pilgrim's Progress as it might have been rewritten by Horatio Alger. All the hagiographic basics are there: his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child; his bloody bout with tuberculosis and miraculous cure (God to Oral: "Son, I am going to heal...
Poor Family. Not being overshadowed is a relatively new experience for Flip, who might stand as the model for a black Horatio Alger character. Born Clerow Wilson in 1933, one of the 18 survivors among 24 children in his family, he was "so poor even the poor looked down on me." His father was a carpenter and sometime tippler who was always looking for work. "Occasionally he'd just stand on the corner with his hammer and saw, waiting for someone to come by who needed a job done," recalls Cornelius Parker, whose family ran a funeral home across...
...audience, using a story about class consciousness, a camp follower with a heart of gold, courage, and coming of age in the British army's retreat from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. A discreet amour in a moonlit glade is an agreeable throwback to the decorous ways of Horatio Hornblower...