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...shared the house for seven years, doing little apart from studying. Gradually, they began to despair. They took risks, Jenkins says, that they knew could lead to death. In his amused telling today, their escapades sound almost as if they could be ripped from the pages of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?except that the punishment for getting caught would not be a few lashes with a belt from Aunt Sally but execution...
...crowds were thin. Old reliables like The Velveteen Rabbit are still the way to fill the theater--"the tyranny of titles," as some put it. There are those who argue, moreover, that the traditional book adaptations shouldn't be dismissed so readily. "It's more important to do Tom Sawyer now than ever," says Nashville's Copeland, "because a lot of kids are not going to read...
Though surely more difficult, Sawyer-Lauçanno said his reliance on Cummings’ own writings rather than the accounts of friends and family resulted in the truest and most comprehensive extant portrait of the poet...
...charges commonly levied against Cummings was that he did not develop as a poet. According to Sawyer-Lauçanno, this accusation springs from that fact that Cummings was “so good so early. For the rest of his life he continually refined early experiments.” Continuity is not a sign of weakness here, but of maturity...
Studying Cummings’ “more difficult poems that function at the syllabic or even phonemic level” along with the huge number of drafts that “vary only by one word, or the spacing of words, or in the margins” gave Sawyer-Lauçanno a reverence for Cummings’ skill. “[His poems] seem so spontaneous, so lively and so free yet they represent such craftsmanship. He appeals to the ear and to the eye,” he said...