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...contrasted long, sweeping shots through their chandeliered salons with pointblank stares into the close-set eyes of floating card sharks. Then, from Hawaii to Egypt, the show followed Mark Twain following the innocents abroad, set the Eton-collared little Lord Fauntleroys of late 19th century America against the Huckleberry Finn of then and all time. Like a big frog always about to make a prizewinning jump, Sam Clemens stood out against his background: as a young man with lean cheeks, darkish hair and misleadingly humorless eyes, or as a snow-headed Connecticut Yankee, strutting in the cap and gown...
...popularity since his death, Mark Twain is now on the crest of a revival that is spreading fast through show business and publishing. M-G-M is about to release a wide-screen version of Huckleberry Finn (with Eddie Hodges as Huck and Pugilist Archie Moore as Jim). Before season's end a total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances...
When they are not, in Fiedler's view, "infuriatingly boyish," the masterworks of U.S. fiction, e.g., Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, are sexless. Even in The Scarlet Letter, the "A" might as well stand for anticlimax, for all passion is spent before the novel begins. Instead of depicting love and marriage, the U.S. writer customarily projects a spectral landscape dominated by death, pursuit and flight. The U.S. novel does not derive its power from skill, according to Fiedler, or from its vaunted realism (from Poe to Nathanael West, it is often surreal), but from something...
...boggling machines that flashed answers across screens, taught foreign languages in deep, resonant voice, lit up with a cheerful "very good" when fed a correct answer, the audile educators were quick to prophesy a revolution in the art of teaching. "It is now possible," declared James D. Finn, professor of education at the University of Southern California and incoming DAVI president, "not only to eliminate the teacher but the school system." Marshall Mc-Luhan, English professor at St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto, in a splendid flight of pedagogical rhetoric, added: "The dialogue [between man and machine...
DAVI President Finn offered one caveat: this awesome equipment must not fall into the hands of any one private institution, e.g., the Ford Foundation. Said he: "The American people don't elect representatives to the Ford Foundation...