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HOLY HORATIO--The nineteenth century Harvard author who sold more copies of his works than Thoreau, Emerson, Parkman, Lowell, and Henry James combined was not a Transcendentalist. He was a Unitarian named "Holy" Horatio Alger Jr., so called because of his announced intention to follow his father's footsteps in the ministry. His 119 "rags-to-riches" novels--all with nearly the same plot--sold around 250,000,000 copies. No Harvard author to date has sold that many books...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Lies My Father Told Me | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...scandal-ridden city administration that gives Mayor White three cars, a private boat, a near-million-dollar entertainment center called the Parkman House, and unlimited patronage is a deserving target for anyone's tirades. The nine-member city council itself--made up of seven lawyers and an undertaker, all of whom are sometimes too busy to work full-time and are always too close to the Mayor--is a body that deserves strident criticism...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Rider on a Storm | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

Horgan's elegant, periodic prose, reminiscent of the 19th century histories of Prescott and Parkman, is at its most eloquent during these confrontations of culture. Horgan views the rebel Martinez as a tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Original | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...Mary Parkman Peabody, LL.D., civil rights activist. Marietta Tree, LL.D., former United States delegate to the United Nations. Frances FitzGerald, Litt.D., author (Fire in the Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 1 | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...Manna struts and bellows, though in his efforts to growl, his lines occasionally garble. Marty Shofner, Richard Bertelson, and Steve Craddock make a good Three Stooges team, and their casual violence fits their uniforms. By avoiding Widow Begbick's slattern stereotype, Claudia Carter does Brecht's characterization one better. Parkman Howe, as a monk cum con artist, skitters away with his part of the show. He turns that original missing private into a God then, with religio-carnival patter, fobs him off on the masses. One wishes Brecht had written him more...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: A Man's A Man | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

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