Word: huck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is little more than a string of vignettes revolving around the characters of Huck, his drunken father, and Jim, the runaway slave. The role of Huck is sung in a reedy voice by towheaded, freckle-faced Franz Elkins, a 14-year-old Austrian TV actor who won the part over several singers from the Vienna Boys Choir partly because of his prowess at tree climbing. Lys Symonette's husband Randolph, an American baritone currently with the Düsseldorf Opera, is Huck's coarsely villainous father. He and Huck dangle their fishing lines in the Danube...
...Yogi & Huck. A big bite of these profits came from such Kellogg basics as corn flakes, which Founder Will Kellogg began to market in 1906 as a health food, and Rice Krispies, whose snap, crackle, pop is part of American folklore. To keep crackling, Kellogg's puts its faith in new products, has introduced ten new cereals in the last 13 years. The latest is a circular, multicolored, fruit-flavored oat cereal called Froot Loops, which Kellogg's is pushing as suitable-or possibly sootable-for all the family from 5 to 95. Just as pre-sugared cereals...
Everybody knows that today's teenagers are a long distance from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, one way or the other. Just how far comes through loud and clear in a survey of the species conducted by Scholastic Magazines Inc. The resulting picture of U.S. boys and girls in grades seven through twelve (roughly age twelve through 17) is calculated to gladden a merchandiser's heart and strain the family's charge account at the drug store. Items...
Spain and then rapidly reprinted all over the Continent. Readers rich and poor were troubled by the author's smiling horror of Renaissance society, but they were also tickled by the scarum scrapes and earthy humor of his hero, a perky little picaro (scalawag) who became the Huck Finn of his century. Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage, Defoe and Fielding were inspired to imitation, and today Lazarillo is acclaimed as the prototype of the picaresque novel, as a handsel of the arriving era of realism in European literature...
...Mark Twain. According to a favorite Fiedler theory, the true rebel was the private Sam Clemens as opposed to the public entertainer Mark Twain. Never these twain will meet-or part. The Second Stone is a skillfully contrived dramatization of this dichotomy. Clem is the defiant Huck Finn who has "lit out for the frontier" with his big "no" to "the world of mothers." Mark is Tom Sawyer, the pseudo rebel "with a note in his pocket to Aunt Polly" saying he loves her (the U.S.) after...