Word: huck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gone was the easy, Tom and Huck familiarity. At least in public, William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan, 34, would never again be plain old Ham, not even to Press Secretary Jody Powell, the only other man in the White House who has served so long and so closely with Jimmy Carter. Explaining Carter's wishes last week, Powell announced: "The President told the White House staff they should no longer consider Mr. Jordan as their peer and they should consider his directives as the President...
...Huck Nelson was only seven when his father first took him down to the steps of the courthouse in Chester, S.C., to hear fiery segregationist Strom Thurmond give one of his tub-thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there...
...almost a century ago, in Tom Sawyer Abroad, he described how his hero boarded a balloon in the Midwest and flew across the Atlantic with his loyal comrade, Huck Finn. Don't journalists read Mark Twain any more...
...apply is one that considers what Dylan tried to do, and how well he did it--no theories of cinema or pop culture hold. No confessional this--only more rumors. If he tried to show us only another in the unending series of masks he has worn since Huck Finn came down from the North Country with his Elvis Presley haircut. All this stuff about his tremendous egotism does not apply--as somebody else has already pointed out, what is art except egotism? Renaldo and Clara is just another step on the many roads of Bob Dylan...
...readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable of developing mature heterosexual themes. Such matey relationships as Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook, Ishmael and Queequeg and Huck Finn and Jim, said Fiedler, were bonded by an innocent and idealized homosexual sentiment. He never said these heroes were homosexuals, though he did use "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" as the titillating title of his essay...