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...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN by Justin Kaplan. 424 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Bernard De Voto challenged that theory by showing that Twain's very humor was a crusader's weapon. With it, said De Voto, Twain exposed the hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book is that even while failing to resolve all controversy about Twain, it does a commendable job of explaining why the controversy exists. A Simon & Schuster editor who resigned six years ago to write this first book, Author Kaplan, 41, approached his assignment with an impartiality that...
...terms either with his unruly genius or with life itself. "It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live." He was, says Kaplan, obsessed with "the rustle and chink and heft of money." He kept a private hate list and added names to it all his years. "A liar, a thief, a drunkard, a traitor, a filthy-minded and salacious slut," he recorded, at 74, of a secretary fallen from his grace. The distinguished...
Also elected were Phoebe C. Elisworth of Guilford, Conn. (Social Relations); Dana Smith Eisbree of Libonier, Pa. (Government); Penny Hollander Feldman of Silver Springs, Md. (Government); Sheila L. Grinnell of Bronx, N.Y. (English); Joan M. Helpern of New York City (Social Relations); Martha J. Kaplan of Perth Amboy, N.J. (Government); and Sydney Key of Berkeley, Calif, (Economics...
...first of the Fall plays will be Gammer Gurton's Needle, a farcical Tudor comedy by the anonymous Mr. S. Master of Arts. Steven H. Kaplan '68 will direct this--and possibly The Friar and the Pardoner, a short interlude by Thomas Heywood--in mid-October...