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This year, Superintendent of Schools Thomas D. Fowler-Finn and School Committee member Nancy K. Walser supported changing the target, while the others, led by Joseph G. Grassi and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, decided instead to increase the band—a solution that was deemed less threatening to the goal of maintaining desegregated schools...
Within that exclusive group of literary characters who have survived through the centuries - from Hercules to Hamlet to Huckleberry Finn - few can rival the cultural impact or staying power of that brilliant sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Since his debut 120 years ago, the gaunt gentleman with the curved pipe and a taste for cocaine, the master of deductive reasoning and elaborate disguise, has left his mark everywhere - in crime literature, film and television, cartoons and comic books. Even his home on Baker Street has for decades been one of London's most popular tourist destinations: the Sherlock Holmes Museum...
...surprising that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn still regularly riles parents when it's taught in school; Mark Twain's 1884 classic is soaked with racial epithets. Some of the other books challenged or banned from classrooms or libraries in the past year are more unexpected. To see a list compiled with the help of the American Library Association, for early October's Banned Books Week, go to time.com/bannedbooks...
...censorship is categorically one hundred percent to be prohibited, but it is to be applied with extreme care.” Jocelyn Chadwick, a former assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of “The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn,” said yesterday that books should never fall under such censorship. “To censor is to shut down a child’s mind,” she said in a telephone interview yesterday. Chadwick, who has worked with schools on teaching books that some people deem...
That marked the end. Like the sideshow, the monster movie, the snake-oil barker and the highway attraction, the fabulists of Huck Finn's world are gone. "The Weekly World News is kind of corny. It's so screwball and off-the-wall it feels like we're too jaded for it anymore," says Birmingham...