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...have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes and maybe a little bag of onions." Friends still recall seeing young John McCormack crouched on a curbstone, reading by the flickering light of a gas street lamp. He devoured dozens of Dick Merriwell* adventures, and he retains a reverence for the rags-to-riches novels of Horatio Alger. "Parents," he says, "should make Horatio Alger stories must reading for their children. They build fine character...
...lift our lamp beyond the golden door and, without regard to politics, share our plenty with them...
...finest work. In this paean to an academic community, Freeman's generous treasure of words does not seem overlush or recondite. He wields the recherche with deftness and then undercuts it with a wonderful transition to the commonplace. Part III ends with Longfellow "Englishing his purgatorio ... while a spirit-lamp warms the coffee up." Part IV shatters this academic fantasy and brings us back to earth...
Seamy Side. A pastor's son, Heldt took early in life to the seamy back streets of Berlin of the '20s, where blank-faced men and women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner...
...servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron goes off to war, Ippolita, with Balzacian parsimony, delightedly returns to her beans and mush, pawns her fine dresses and lights one dim lamp of an evening...