Word: horatios
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...extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype of the company man, seems to have proliferated...
...modern Horatio Alger is a penniless Negro who rises from the rags of a segregated Southern high school to the riches of Harvard. As in the classic story, he has a patron. It is the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, a counseling agency that finds poor Negroes with rich minds and then finds colleges and scholarships for them. In 15 years of scouring South and North, NSSFNS (which is commonly reduced to "Ness-feness" in speech) has successfully planted 9,000 Negroes in 350 mostly-white colleges, and last week it revealed its chief asset: the Negroes...
Says the Rev. Walter Wagoner, executive director of the Fund for Theological Education: "These committees are looking for God Jr., and no one-living or dead-meets their requirements. Much of the problem results from a Horatio Alger complex, a belief that you can go out and buy a good minister the way college football coaches buy a 250-lb. tackle." Wagoner thinks that the churches could stem pulpit jumping by setting up denomination-wide salary scales (today the pay runs from $3,600 to $20,000 in the major churches) that reward ministers on the basis of length...
...rest of the company on the whole displays an admirable high quality. Philip Bosco conveys the fervor and noble loyalty of Kent, who is to Lear what Horatio is to Hamlet. In the earlier parts of the play, the Gloucester of Patrick Hines is somewhat perfunctory; but after being blinded, his thereby improved "sight" spurs him to the most eloquent work of his career. His prayer and his final dialogue with Lear are extremely moving. (But why did the director place his "suicide" leap on the flat part of the stage when a six-inch "cliff of Dover" was available...
Pierre Boulez, an internationally noted French composer, will present this year's three Horatio Appleton Lamb Lectures tonight, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in Paine Hall. The general title of the lectures, sponsored by the Department of Music, is "the Necessity of an Aesthetic Orientation...