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Pale, thin and nervous, Dan Nichols testified that his father had taken the initiative in the alleged crimes as in all else. He offered little that explained how he had become a slave to his father's will. The old- er man, now thin and beardless, offered at least some illumination when he described one of his techniques for persuading his child to follow his own antisocial ways. Said he: "I hit him on the forehead with my fist. I thought that was the safest way--that I'd break my hand before I had hurt him." Nichols admitted...
...picaresque ramblings of Huck (Daniel Jenkins), who runs away from the enslavements of civilization, and his friend Jim (Ron Richardson), a literal runaway slave, have been pared into a purposeful narrative without diminishing the aura of spontaneity. William Hauptman's book also sustains Twain's deeper exploration of how a society could view slavery as normal and regard assisting a runaway as a crime against property. The story starts slowly and wobbles in tone, but achieves the original's deft mix of social comment, slapstick farce, heartrending melodrama and boy's own tale of danger. Big River, which started...
More likely, Podhoretz fixation is simply a complication arising from Navasky wags-slave syndrome, a disease Trillin has exhibited for years. Trillin has constantly jibed Victor S. Navasky, the editor of The Nation, for underpaying his staffers. One wonders how the Commentary pay scale compares Whatever the case, Navasky syndrome is more prevalent than ever in With All Disrespect...
Hughes immediately grabbed for his yellow legal pad and scratched out a memo to Robert A. Maheu, a former FBI agent who served as his executive slave...
Fortunately today's Yardlings have their own dormitories, thus minimizing the threat of slave labor...