Word: latter-day
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...Billy C. Clark (233 pp.; Crowell; $4.50), at first seems to tug too unashamedly at the reader's sympathies. In fact, this autobiographical sketch of a Kentucky boyhood is flecked by neither self-pity nor stuffiness, and its markings of American life are so authentic that a latter-day Mark Twain could reshape it without much trouble into a new Huckleberry Finn...
...mythology. Instead, it is pumped and pounded out by Dixieland outfits-Turk Murphy's Band, the Salt City Six, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band-which draw nostalgic fans to hear new crackling arrangements of old fancies. Last week the Dukes of Dixieland, slickest and most successful of latter-day Dixieland groups, were shaking the walls and the waiters at Manhattan's Roundtable...
...Huxley, the issues of science and religion were not nearly so clear as they are taken to be by some of his latter-day admirers, and his own high wire between faith and honest doubt sometimes trembled under him. He became bad-tempered every time his devoted Australian wife took another of his brood off to be baptized, but toward the end of his life took great stock in the Old Testament. He was no scientific bigot and mocked his materialist friend John Tyndall by asking how he could deduce Hamlet from the molecular structure of a mutton chop...
...First National Bank to a group of private businessmen headed by Norge Chairman Judson S. Sayre, Kennecott Director Leland B. Flint, and Utah Loan Company Executive Roy W. Simmons. Sale price: $9,818,314. The explanation from the Mormon leaders: the time has passed when Brigham Young's Latter-Day Saints need place their trust only in church-backed business institutions...
Novelist Ishlon tells her story in a two-part stream of consciousness, first through the oversimplified mind of the girl in a kind of Schreckengost-written prose, then through the hypomanic mind of the A. & R. man, who has abandoned serious composing and now sees himself as "a latter-day alchemist, compounding dross voices with banal notes to produce gold." Novelist Ishlon insists that Anna Lou Schreckengost is no one in particular. She could be an approximation of Cincinnati's Doris Kappelhoff, who-with 1946-3 Sentimental Journey-made famous her new name, Doris Day. But coincidence falls closer...