Word: huck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...views-especially about race-of their Confederate ancestors. For the first time since the failure of the old Populist movement, we've got a workable coalition of poor whites, liberal whites and minorities. Jimmy Carter's manhood is entwined with Andrew Young's, just like Huck Finn's was with...
...CARTER, 8, is not quite campaigning, but she is a distinct political asset. A frisky, freckled, strawberry blonde who looks like Huck Finn's kid sister with the inevitable Carter smile, she basks in all the attention without letting it turn her head. She has, however, learned to turn a profit by selling lemonade and sandwiches at her already famous stand in Plains. In one day's brisk entrepreneurship, she and her pint-size partners earned $23 from tourists and newsmen who were thirsty for anything that the Carter family provided...
Such claims aside, a marginal case can be made for Jock Lit. Taken as innocent ego trips by authors who want to retain title to a Huck Finn boyhood without forfeiting their college degrees, the genre may be enjoyed by nostalgic and overeducated readers on their own night off. Furthermore, the premise behind these books is admirable: Why should the jock and the egghead be cultural schizophrenics? Alas, the question remains unanswered by those who now raise it. As ex-Puritans, Michener, Novak and their literary teammates are simply trying too hard to get body and soul together...
...while, it looked like it was going to be "Be Kind to Huskies" night, as Harvard did all it could to oblige the perennial tournament losers. Tim McKenna was sent off the ice for playing with a broken stick at 4:26 and 20 seconds later Charlie Huck's power play shot rattled off Crimson skates and past Brian Petrovek for a 1-0 Northeastern lead...
...Fran Huck had two goals for the losers, including one with only three and a half minutes to go in the finale...