Word: horatios
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...Take a Card." Today an announcer, tomorrow a spokesman. Such is another peculiarity of the show-biz equation. For Carson, the rise was a little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...
Romero notes, however, that this kind of dream will never be realized in Argentina because of the workers' middle class mentality. They have the old Horatio Alger instincts and are only concerned with satisfying their own interests; they are convinced they could only lose in any kind of fundamental social revolution. The revolutionary potential of Argentina will not be found in any particular economic strata, but rather in ideological groups. While you can't say that the workers or the peasants are potentially revolutionary, you can say that certain political parties on the Left are, Romero continues...
...Horatio at the Wall. Many of Elon's observations are familiar enough. He reviews the industrial resurgence of West Germany. One reads again of the neo-Nazi lunatic fringe, but Elon suggests that a vigilant press and growing democratic values keep the extreme rightists cornered. And there are also the usual set pieces: the Horatian discourse before the Berlin Wall, the discovery of the Germans' compulsive need to be loved, the bloody reappearance of Schmisse (dueling scars) on the Nordic faces of West German Korporationen youth...
...will, thought, word and deed. Hamlet is also the first supremely self-conscious hero to tread the stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch cards marked Father's Ghost, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and responding mechanically to them. His co-players do not perceptibly help by acting like crumpled punch cards...
...audience was howling that the game had gone on much too long. "This is the worst I've ever seen a public official treated," winced one guest. The next speaker might have faced sudden death if he'd gone into overtime. "My name is Hubert Horatio Humphrey," grinned the Vice President. " 'H,' " he explained, as the Bronx cheers erupted, "is for HELP...