Word: finn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that philosophy that underlies great American nov els as diverse as Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn - and The Old Man and the Sea, in which an angler's prize catch is finally reclaimed by nature...
...Finland's legendary long-distance runner who won seven individual gold medals in three Olympiads (during the 1920s), of heart disease; in Helsinki. As a poor youngster, Nurmi worked in a foundry and ran 50 miles a week to develop his stamina. With long, flowing strides, "the Flying Finn" streaked through his decade, setting 28 world marks and dominating every distance race from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon. Disqualified from the 1932 Olympics for "professionalism," he returned bitterly to Finland and made a fortune in the construction business...
...doctoral candidate in English and American literature at Harvard who tutored her in Southern writers. Kennedy and Townsend are such Mark Twain fans that in the summer of '72 they recruited three friends to help build a raft and ride the Mississippi for 21 days in Huck Finn style...
...Ingmar Bergman heroine. By those standards Hutton seemed to be in the wrong game. She is only 5 ft. 7½ in.-slightly below average for a mannequin. Worse, by her own rather exaggerated reckoning, she has a "lopsided face, crossed eyes, a bumpy nose, and a Huckleberry Finn gap between my front teeth." When Photographer Richard Avedon first saw her, he wrote her off as not having enough "intensity." He thought she was too much like "a Florida type on water skis - just another pretty girl...
...American painter coated with a more adhesive legend: the salty country boy who never went to school and picked it all up in his father's studio; the brusque down-Easter with a Huck Finn smile who never went for that French art stuff and never once moved out of America. The weathered faces of Wyeth's favorite subjects -Christina Olson, Karl Kuerner or Ralph Cline, the veteran patriot with a skull like a parchment-covered round shot-have become nearly as familiar as Charlie Brown or Donald Duck. They are seen as icons of survival and indomitability...