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Harvard Heavy: Wood, stroke; Snyder, 7; Stone, 6; Donald, 5; Parkman, 4; Sawyer, 3; White, 2; Campbell, bow; and Ware...
...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...engines roar louder. Behind us our peashooters are attacked by Zeroes and new I-97s I see six go at Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...
...pages long, and is intended primarily for literary specialists. But it is of interest to anybody who has ever enjoyed Huckleberry Finn. For these three essays are a continuation of Bernard DeVoto's self-imposed literary ordeal-the critical reconstruction of Mark Twain. The first is about Tom Sawyer, and includes the shaky sketch-Mark Twain's first try at fiction -from which it grew. The second is about Huckleberry Finn, and DeVoto prints several revealing pages of Mark Twain's notes for it. The third tells, briefly, of the years of all-but-annihilating personal crisis...
Shakespearean Abundance. This failing severely limits the realistic depth of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain does not record "the curiosity, the shame, the torment" of adolescence; and in that particular sense Mark Twain's whole memory of Hannibal is "a libel [on] a full-blooded folk." But "in what he perceived, in what he felt, in the nerve-ends of emotion, in the mysterious ferments of art which transform experience, he was a great mind-there has been no greater in American literature." DeVoto notes the almost Shakespearean abundance of life that floods Mark Twain...