Word: finn
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...Okie from Muskogee would rather die than appear in anything unAmerican. No sweat. Huckleberry Finn contains just the role for Merle Haggard. On March 25, over ABC, he will make his dramatic debut in a TV movie of Mark Twain's classic. He will play Duke, the sweet-talking con man. His country music fans may be disappointed. "I wouldn't want to mix singin' in with the actin'," explains Merle. "That way, if I mess up, I can at least salvage something for my career...
...worked 16 years in the fields described..."; "one worker who showed his income tax returns to a reporter..."; "Giorgio Aglipay ["a farmworker"]...reported..."; "...one farmworker told Dr. Paul Gaston..."; "one grape picker explained..." I have one question: why is the Crimson publishing this sort of crap? Kathleen Finn Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology and Social Relations
Wayne Curtis took the fourth place for Harvard, while teammate Dave Nemazee finished fifth. The Crimson's Brian Finn took seventh position, with Dava Randall and Chris Bickerton closing out the Harvard scoring in tenth and 11th places...
Like the Mississippi, the swindle theme runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...
This slender and often charming autobiography, in short, is about growing up, and the author admits that Peter Pan had absolutely the right idea about the whole painful subject. There are moments when Bowen cannot seem to decide whether to remember the past as Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield. No matter. He spares us any anguished memories about teen-age sex. He is full of sentiment but no self-pity. His quotes and anecdotes are often sharp and funny. "If thee marries for money," his Quaker stepfather once admonished him, "thee surely will earn it." Most important, Bowen writes about...