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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...