Word: huck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until we know if Dylan is alive and well in a Columbia recording studio, we can only look back through seven albums (The Greatest Hits of ... doesn't count) which took him from the corduroy Huck Finn of "Bob Dylan" to the out-of-focus kaleidoscope poet of "Blonde on Blonde." In the liner notes to that first album Nat Hentoff blessed him as one of "the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that self-assertive tradition." Self-deceptive would be more accurate. Dylan was just another work shirt and guitar buried under hyperbolic interpretation...
Others who finished in the top ten of the upperclassmen race: Frank Huck of Dunster, Douglas Huff of Dudley, Jim Maslech of Dudley, Gerald Brock of Quincy, Peter Ewing of Kirkland, Craig Lewis of Dunster, Edward Brown of Winthrop, Ken Moller of Lowell, and Wesley Williams of Dudley...
...Take a Card." Today an announcer, tomorrow a spokesman. Such is another peculiarity of the show-biz equation. For Carson, the rise was a little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...
...literature ostensibly created for children-Huck Finn, Grimm's fairy tales-fantasy was mixed with social satire and cruelty beyond the comprehension of innocent minds. Mark Twain and Grimm succeeded by stressing the differences between the child's and the adult's world. Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave...
...Twain's books mirror the savage and embittered cynicism that lies on the other side of humor, and all of them are touched with violence and the despair of a man who courted the values of his time and despised himself for doing so. The raft on which Huck Finn and Nigger Jim drift down the river was Twain's own fantasy solution for evading nemesis. It was where he longed...