Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief of this laboratory is a quiet little apple-cheeked Finn named Eliel Saarinen, who in the past 40 years has also redesigned European towns from Budapest to Tallinn, Estonia, and who is widely regarded as the greatest living authority on city planning...
...DeVoto's first report on his findings. Mark Twain at Work, the second, is less a book than a preface. It is only 140 pages long, and is intended primarily for literary specialists. But it is of interest to anybody who has ever enjoyed Huckleberry Finn. For these three essays are a continuation of Bernard DeVoto's self-imposed literary ordeal-the critical reconstruction of Mark Twain. The first is about Tom Sawyer, and includes the shaky sketch-Mark Twain's first try at fiction -from which it grew. The second is about Huckleberry Finn, and DeVoto...
Most exciting for lay readers is the essay on Huck Finn. Characteristically, it never occurred to Mark Twain, when he started Huckleberry Finn, that he was writing something of matchless newness in the world's literary history. He wrote the first half of the book "more to be at work than anything else," laid it by unfinished for six years, then added some of the most magnificent chapters in U.S. literature and a folderol ending. For Mark, says DeVoto, "felt no difference in value between the highest truths of fiction and merely literary burlesque." He had almost no ability...
Shakespearean Abundance. This failing severely limits the realistic depth of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain does not record "the curiosity, the shame, the torment" of adolescence; and in that particular sense Mark Twain's whole memory of Hannibal is "a libel [on] a full-blooded folk." But "in what he perceived, in what he felt, in the nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...